Roles and profiles of planners in Australia and Argentina

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the different characteristics of the roles of urban planners in Australia and Argentina and the historical conformation of their profiles. These reflections arise out of a journey undertaken in March 2013, in the context of the Planning Connections Program of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA), which was sponsored by the Council on Australia Latin America Relations (COALAR) and the Professional Council of Architecture and Urbanism of Buenos Aires, Argentina (CPAU).