French planning
Posted on March 3, 2007 by organicfrog
I’ve recently come across this really interesting article about French planning on this APG site. (The link is in the middle of the page)
Even if I haven’t really worked in France as a planner, only two internships, I think that this article written by Luc Wise and Xavier Charpentier underlines very wisely the main problems planning is facing in France: the necessity to permanently justify your position, the role of the “intelectuel”, the fear of account handler to see planners ’stealing the most satisfying part of their job’…
This article is definitely worth reading by every planner and especially the French ones. However I was surprised to discover that some English planners I talked with weren’t really aware of the difficulty to be a planner in a country with no formal planning culture. It’s maybe an interesting place to start…
By the way does anyone know what happened to the French APG?
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[...] and my career would not have gone too far and I would have probably been miserable, taken how planning in France seems to struggle as a [...]