This is a question about Urban and Regional Planning.
Few people replied my previous question. And these answers were for me very very interesting, but I'm so curious: why so few? Is U&R Planning a stupid field of knowledge? Of no interest for anybody?
So I thought to change the question, starting with the relationship between science and technique / technology (in the sense of a normal science, à la Thomas Kuhn).
I'm architect, but architecture is not the same thing of planning. I need for instance also ecology and engineering, administrative law and legislation, agriculture and so on.
Which is the correct school to learn urban and regional planning? A mix of schools?
I really suppose that we need a science to understand our impact on the biosphere. We need to change our world understanding.
The question posed is an interesting one, and the key to the answer to it lies in the question itself; "Governments and Public Administration". While doing bachelors, we had a subject called town planning where we were told about the various stages in a civilization. How from an scattered population people start coming together and start building ideas for their collective protection against nature, and neighboring groups of other people. This very notion of socializing requires certain administration to resolve conflicts that arise amongst individual tendencies. As and how the society develops, the administration system becomes more and more intelligent. With the basic needs of food clothing and shelter met in an excellent manner, it is a human tendency to explore further needs and then comes the need of luxuries. The intelligent administration then develops intelligent technological institutes for making available the luxuries to all. In the name of development, laws of nature are played with, and problems we know as environmental problems start to show up. Then there begins a divide in the society--those who choose sustainability and those who choose more and more luxury----The former ones start intriguing on the questions similar to the one posed-----while the latter ones keep on adding complexities to the above questions....Initially the number of people on the sustainability is very low, since the goggle of luxury is a sticky one, not easily removable. However as the weight of luxury increases, the goggle becomes heavy, the problems start increasing, and more and more people with goggles start removing them and coming on the sustainability side. The above happens in the society, and the same happens to the governments. Then schools are set up for developing technological solutions for sustainability---
No doubts that all people today understand the concept of sustainability----but mere understanding is not enough----the burden of luxuries should be felt heavily, and then can people think of getting relieved from luxuries, and truly become a part of nature---
It is the above simple logic (science) that governs the complete process of development of town and regional planning, depending on the fraction of the society on the sustainability and luxury side, the governments and administration of the society is decided----- the future of the society is decided----
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