What do practicing planners do when confronted with ethical conflicts in their day-to-day work? How can the planning profession help planners make ethical decisions? Howe's answers to these questions are perceptive and revealing.

In this insightful, lively, and compassionate book, Elizabeth Howe explores how planners define ethical issues and make ethical choices. She is not concerned with a distant or abstract ethics but rather with the actual ethical dilemmas planners face in everyday practice. This book is about real people making difficult choices in real situations. The cases Howe examines derive from nearly 150 hours of personal interviews with 96 professional planners, and responses to follow-up questionnaires.

This book should be read by every practicing planner wondering how others deal with the workaday world. It is required reading for every student seeking a glimpse of the profession outside the classroom. And it will inform and reward all those concerned with the necessity of acting on ethics in an imperfect world.