Reviewing the Literature
by Perry Norton

Do you spend more time reviewing how other communities have done things than in carefully thinking through how your community should act? With the explosion of online resources, are we being swamped with too much information? Long-time planner Perry Norton reflects on these questions.

Do you have a computer? Of course you do, or somebody you know quite well has one. And in no time you can log on to all sorts of web pages to read the words of planners, and transportation engineers, and ethicists, and what have you -– all sharing the wisdom of the moment. Good stuff? Sure. These people aren’t scribbling. But after they have written, you have to interpret what’s been said and what it might mean for you, for the work of the Commission, and for the community you serve. ...

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