Urban Planning and Defense Planning, Past and Future

Since the events of September n, 2001, homeland security planning has become an increasingly important component of urban operations. This not the first time urban planners and defense planners have worked together towards a common goal. During the 1960s, professionals from the two communities collaborated to transfer a variety of innovations in information gathering and analysis from military to urban contexts. This article explores the tensions that complicated these partiesʹ efforts to adapt military solutions to problems in the urban environment and suggests lessons to be applied to future collaborations.