An ICS project Published
Plan for Planning
The Lost Art of the Plan: A Guide to Seeing the City Whole, Second Edition 2026.
At a glance
- StatusPublished
- The bookThe Lost Art of the Plan, Second Edition 2026
- Siteplanforplanning.org
Why this project
Why this project
The planning profession has retreated into administrative timidity: processing applications rather than envisioning futures. ... We are recovering that craft.
What it is
What it is
A Guide to Seeing the City Whole: a moral argument, practical manual, and call to action for civic leaders and public servants to reclaim comprehensive, artist-like city planning.
The Artist's Method
The Artist's Method
The discipline of witness, the art of moral synthesis, the courage to test, and the quiet discipline of institutional memory.
What the project does
What the project does
- Diagnoses the profession
- Imports design thinking
- Reclaims the art of the plan
From the Preface
“The Lost Art of the Plan is both an indictment of our administrative retreat and an invitation to renewal.”
Preface, The Lost Art of the Plan
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