Plus ça change

Gen Kobayashi and Hannah Mackenzie

In assessing the future of planning this essay argues that despite the world being in constant flux (with never-ending change a characteristic of modern society), social meaning, at its core, remains constant.

Plus ça change

Gen Kobayashi

Divining the future is scary. Infinite variables coalesce with inconceivable statistics and intimidating predictions to present a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between present and future. On encountering this void, we have chosen to retreat. Back to something familiar, to the one constant in a deluge of abstract information: people. People just don't change all that much. The more the world alters around us, the more the fundamentals at the core of human nature are evident. And if people don't change, then planning doesn't either.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chosei

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