An understanding gap? Planning education in a time of change: a response to Taylor and Close

Maidment, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9158-6910 and Parker, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3079-4377 (2023) An understanding gap? Planning education in a time of change: a response to Taylor and Close. Town Planning Review, 94 (3). pp. 255-270. ISSN 1478-341X doi: 10.3828/tpr.2023.2

Abstract/Summary

Building on Taylor and Close’s (2022) commentary reviewing the skills gap concerning how planners are educated and trained, this response places this ‘gap’ in the context of key relationships that shape this; between skills, knowledges and attitudes, including a more nuanced understanding of knowledge; between the Royal Town Planning Institute, planning schools and employers and between planning and other built-environment disciplines. The resulting argument is that a more nuanced understanding of where different responsibilities lie for educating and training planners needs to be a pre-requisite for understanding how the skills gaps identified by Taylor and Close should be addressed.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/112482
Identification Number/DOI	10.3828/tpr.2023.2
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Real Estate and Planning
Publisher	Liverpool University Press
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