PLANNING AND REGIONAL SCIENCE

There are two skillful evasions of a meaningful discussion of the relationship between planning and regional science. Working within the framework of regional science, one can look quickly at the long-term and healthy relationship between a handful of regional economics techniques (Richardson 1978) and the planning profession. Although these techniques are important in defining the relationship between planning and regional science, a discussion of them could be brief and rather pedestrian. A more skillful exit from considering real issues would be to turn to the recent and persistent self-examination of academic planners. Always prone to in-trospection and self-criticism, academic planners have been confessing recently that what occurs in the halls of academe may be unresponsive and irrelevant to th