摘要：In a study on Town and Regional Planners a decade ago, Badenhorst (1984) highlighted the fact that Town and Regional Planning was a young profession, not yet completely “professionalised” in the true sense of the word. Unlike established professions, such as Architecture, Land Surveying and so forth, it did not satisfy among others the primary prerequisite of any profession, recognition/acceptance by society at large. It lacked legitimacy in the sense that the role specification of practitioners was not embodied in a statute defining their duties and privileges, as well as the fact that the public was not willing to pay a fee commensurate to that paid to the established professions’ for their services, either from private or public funds. At best the measures represented basic, indirect criteria of acceptance, reflecting the state of affairs at the time.
其他关键词：occupational profile;town and regional planner;Town planner profile
