The Face of Conflicts

When there is talking topic about planning, conflict comes first before anything else in all around the world. The issue of conflict is anything but new to planning. Planning theory and research have since long recognized the significance of conflict. So good planning needs to have visions of ends results, democracies planning process and theory, and never achieved without conflict. In planning process there is always conflict between local neighborhood and developers for local land use for new planning.

By reading an article named “Planning in the face of conflict” written by John Forester, a professor of city and regional planning at Cornell university, simply can understand that planners and others involved in city development to study what the practice of city planning is really like in the face of conflict. Forester thinks that planners are mediator and they need to help both developers and local neighborhood residents through the complexities of the planning process and most of the planning issues, planners can be effective in the face of conflict. So the Forester says successful planners handle conflicts both through formally and informally and that’s why they have to respond to every complex and contradictory duties.

Even though planners are mediator between conflicting parties, but same time they have to negotiates for themselves as interested parties. These are some critical phases that planners have to get through it and have to explore different planning strategies to deal with such conflicts. To deal with such conflicts, planners have some responsibilities to accomplished. Firstly, planner must help both developers and neighborhood residents then planners need to be concerned with timing and then need to deal with conflicts between project developers and affected neighborhood residents and finally should complete formal responsibilities and injecting informal initiatives. In conclusion, planners have the great role and responsibility to negotiate and mediate during the face of conflicts in planning process.