Diary Of A Planner: Welfare

"Reformist policy and the planning discipline suddenly found themselves devoid of a recognizable statute if not of the broad legitimization that they enjoyed, and which partly associated the two, during the prior decades. Notwithstanding this, and in different, and more articulated and sophisticated, terms the discussion of welfare and its new dimensions continues; and the old determinism, albeit in less banal and reductive forms, has not completely abandoned urban and territorial policy."