Place principals: Leadership in planning

Hambleton, Robin

Abstract

This short article argues that planning professionals and academics need to focus much more attention on the role of planners as place-based leaders. It argues that the role of leadership has been seriously neglected in planning theory and aims to provide a corrective. A conceptual framework for understanding place-based leadership is presented and three examples of inspirational, progressive place-based leadership by city planners in different countries are outlined to show how planners, seen as civic leaders, can make a difference: Susan Anderson, Director of the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Portland, Oregon; Wulf Daseking, Director of Planning and Building in Freiburg, Germany from 1984-2012; and Christer Larsson, Director of City Planning, Malmo, Sweden.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 6, 2017
• Publication Date: May 10, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 7, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 8, 2017
• Journal: The Planner
• Print ISSN: 2053-7581
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 26-29
• Keywords: city leadership, city planning, place-based leadership
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/887846
• Publisher URL: https://www.theplanner.co.uk/features/place-principals-the-planners-who-lead-placemaking
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This article first appeared in The Planner, the magazine of the Royal Town Planning Institute. - http://www.theplanner.co.uk
• Contract Date: Jun 7, 2017