Nigel Taylor: Anglo-American Town Planning Theory since 1945
The practice of planning has progressively developed into a profession since the end of WW2. This evolution is well represented from today’s town planning practitioners/theorists whom operate very differently to the Le Corbusier and Ebenzer Howard types of the early 1900’s.
It’s hard for me to say that what's happened with town planning is a paradigm shift. I mean, it’s still all under the one town-planning (context) umbrella. It's just that it has developed since the original design/aesthetics focus towards "managing the process of arriving at planning decisions and negotiating agreements for action” (aka planning-mediation and theory) (text pg104) or, from an art to a science. Notably though, the methodical shift from modernist (simplified) to post-modernist (complex) planning actually demonstrated part of the big-picture adaptation that the planning profession has been going through continually since the early 90's. And, it should be expected that planning will continue to evolve in line with the neo-urban environment, which is not necessarily a paradigm shift, rather it's the forward momentum of a continual town planning practice and theory evolution.
Most professions perform this way; it's how they stay relevant to the time and place they're practiced in.
Berlin - it required some intense post war re-construction.
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