A plan, in turn, is ‘a. Originally transmitted by practitioners via apprenticeships. Abstract This chapter is a first effort to make sense of the over-extensive and often perplexing field of planning theory. to do’, ‘a detailed map or diagram’. Little distinction between goals, knowledge and planning process. Planning emerged from applied disciplines. Emergence of Planning Theory. Nascent theories imbedded in utopian visions As I outline below, JAPA has a broad interest in a range of planning th