05-03-2021, 06:11 PM
(05-03-2021, 04:59 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(05-03-2021, 03:59 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: I can’t help but wonder if this attitude isn’t exactly the problem with planners. Pretending to care and assuming that they know what they are doing when they clearly do not (at least, not all the time) are not the route to optimal projects.
While it is a fact that many of the comments are B.S. (to the extent that something as imprecise as that can be a fact), there are bound to be missed local context or thought provoking ideas in the feedback, sadly mixed in. As an expert in my own domain, this is my experience with client feedback, and I’ve seen enough to be certain that it is the same in the architecture/urban planning realm.
Soliciting useful and relevant feedback is a skillset in itself, not everyone (few even) have it. It is a job which is made much easier (but absolutely still not trivial) when those you are soliciting feedback are working in good faith.
Yes, and it comes back to the question of whether the experts know best. Sometimes they don't. I think we've talked about that in the context of, say, intersection and street design. Sometimes they do. One should get a COVID vaccine! As an expert, it's important to not think that one knows everything.