What Town Planners Do

Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies. Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with its moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses today’s planning scene through the stories of four diverse working environments. Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with its moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses today’s planning scene through the stories of four diverse working environments.The book provides a unique insight for educators, students and researchers into the everyday lives of planners and those in associated built environment professions and provides an exceptional resource for sociologists of contemporary work.