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“Planning is a messy, contentious field” (Campbell & Fainstein, 1996, p. 4) with no stable, convincing order according to well-defined disciplinary canons. Its boundaries are not clear and there is not even agreement on its central focus. It consists in a variety of practices in which the planner can play multiple roles connected to functions and skills that are not exclusive, because other institutional or social actors could legitimately intrude upon the same fields of action.
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Palermo, P.C., Ponzini, D. (2010). Choosing the Paradigm. In: Spatial Planning and Urban Development. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8870-3_24
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