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Urban Planners and Designers are undergoing the most considerable change ever experienced in human history. Who will be the most successful in the information age? We believe he will be the Planner and Designer who has the best access to information resources and the smartest ability to process it. The rapid movement to information age will focus attention on creative thinking and unique personal skills as the most important elements for success. When planners better understand the recent rapid changes, they would see more opportunities for their ways to better positively influence the future of their urban planning issues. Most of the skills and attitudes needed for the agriculture/industrial age were: Regularity, Follow instructions; Recognize the authority of conventional systems, Work on monotonous tasks for a long period of time. Does this describe our current urban planning needs today? Does this describe the model of what we are doing in our profession in the information age? Does our paradigm of being successful planners require these qualities? In other words does any of the 20th century Principles, Concepts, Theories, will be applicable in the new age? This web site will try to answer all the questions about what will happen in the coming few decades.. Mohsen Salah Youssef
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