The Convergence of Technology and Community Planning

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:26:00 GMT

Professional (community) planning has evolved since the early twentieth century to become a mainstream activity within almost all communities. I'd be hard pressed to find a community of any size that didn't have some form of comprehensive plan; dealing with issues such as land use, parks and recreation,transportation, water systems streetscaping and so on.

Technology master planning, on the other hand, has emerged in a few dozen communities only over the past decade, and in very few cases has it been tightly integrated with the professional planning process.

There are two schools of thought about whether and to what extent these two disciplines will continue to co-exist or converge going forward.

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The Convergence of Technology and Community Planning