The above is a definition of ‘planning’ given to us by planning theorist Yehezkel Dror. Planning can be a simple subconscious task or an extremely complex conscious process requiring the input of several people. In whatever form it is a process that affects everyone, everyday, in someway or another. Defining such a thing can be very difficult and will often produce a multitude of different theories. The following report explains and critically analyses Dror’s definition by systematically breaking it down and examining his rationalization of the parts as well as encompassing the ideas of other planning theorists and my own personal experiences. Before this analysis takes place however one must first take into account the overall, in other words ask ourselves: why plan in the first place?

Imagine a world without any form of planning; the more one tries to imagine what this would be like the more relevant and important it appears to be. Without planning in all of its contexts, the world would be in a chaotic state of disorganisation, everything w

ould occur at random and life as we know it would be an impossibility. Planning occurs at both a conscious and a sub-conscious level, and for the purposes of this exercise we are really only interested in the conscious level.

Planning is a very complex process requiring long and tiresome analysis by professionals trained for task. But it is also a sub-conscious process that every single person on the planet carries out everyday. The human brain has the capability of carrying out the entire process of selecting goals, identifying means and evaluating alternatives in a split second without its owner even noticing, have you ever wondered why you don’t bump into people while walking down George St. on a busy Friday afternoon when the only thing you are concentrating on is the new CD in your hand? It is because your brain is sub-consciously planning your path, making you swerve left and right.

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