Oranje, Mark2018-04-032018-04-032018-05-072018-03-31Van Huyssteen, E 2018, Being, becoming and contributing in (and through) Planning, PHD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64368>A2018http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64368Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2018.The thesis, Being, becoming and contributing in (and through) Planning, provides an overview and reflection on an innovative narrative-based enquiry into personal and professional work-life experiences of planning practitioners. It is aimed at exploring competency development in planning as a future orientated practice, where practitioners are challenged to contribute in complex and adaptive local and global contexts. The enquiry draws on the fields of planning practice, planning education, sustainability leadership, lifelong learning, as well as professional and career development. The quest metaphor was used to stretch the exploration beyond formal professional education and complicated competency development frameworks and models, towards archetypical patterns, probes and paradoxes in complex and highly relational inner and outer growth experiences. In reflecting on that which seem to enable and impel planning practitioners to contribute in their work-life contexts, the enquiry reveals (and once again reminds us of) the potential value and generative capacity in the nexus between personal and relational practice experience of transformative growth, practice excellence and commitment to the unfolding collective future.en© 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.Town and Regional PlanningUCTDUrban and regional planningSpatial developmentSustainable developmentParticipatory planningCommunity developmentEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04SDG-04: Quality educationEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructureEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10SDG-10: Reduced inequalitiesEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communitiesEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-13SDG-13: Climate actionEngineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-17SDG-17: Partnerships for the goalsThesis