摘自 Jerold Kayden的演講“What's the mission of Harvard‘s urban planning program？” （http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/back/22_Kayden.html）
What is the difference between urban planning and urban design in a department that teaches both? To choose one particular issue, do urban planning students really need to know how to draw well, as well as trained architects and landscape architects who are FInishing post-professional degrees in urban design? Do urban planning students need to attain the same level of understanding of urban morphology as that attained by urban designers? Do urban planners need to have the same technical skills and artistic inventiveness in reading, representing, and manipulating three dimensions as urban designers? By placing the two groups—one already professional, one pre-professional—side by side, do we need to exercise special care in explaining to both that they have different backgrounds and roles to play in shaping the built environment, and do we need to say, perhaps more forthrightly than we have in the past, “Vive la différence!”?
For me, the answer is “Yes.” Just as urban planning education should not have fallen for the siren call of policy analysis, so too should it resist the siren call of excessive design proficiency. An urban planning program that stresses the shaping of the built environment need not, indeed should not, become “urban design lite,” any more than an urban design program should become “urban planning lite.” I see the urban planning program here, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, as confident enough to draw distinctions as well as sections, make arguments as well as models, speculate theoretically as well as figuratively, and undertake discussions and critiques that do not for their persuasive power depend exclusively on graphic techniques for analysis and communication.
To oversimplify a bit, if urban designers are action painters, directly designing the built environment, then urban planners are one-step-away professionals uniquely positioned to confront the array of previously discussed forces on the one hand and the built environment on the other. The specific product of urban planning can be text, a two-dimensional plan, an ordinance or regulation, a report, a program of uses, an evaluation of current uses, as well as a rendering or model representing three dimensions, but it does not have to be so rendered or modelled to be valid. The products of text, plans, regulations, reports, programs, and evaluations will themselves have a profound impact on the built environment. If that sounds a bit restrained for some, it sounds powerful and challenging to me.
在柏林和最喜歡的老師Jan講的是planning，回到學校和advisor講的是design，和人前人後我用的字眼是city而非urban。再進一步回問的人則說：“是metropolitan還是regional，community，transport等等？”
喜歡城市，更喜歡比較城市。在柏林上的幾門課裡，想不到最讓我失望的是urban soc，最享受的是建築／planning。以前對藝術只有瞻仰的份，從不認為自己會和它沾邊。即使是曾經花過精神和時間（少許興趣）在國畫鋼琴上面，我也從不相信自己曾經認真和art打過交道。但是偏偏柏林可貴的地方在於，它比一些歐洲城市更鼓勵藝術的普及｀多樣和發展。
簡單來說，柏林的很多博物館在開放時間和門票上都比一些歐洲國家更“generous.”每一次從其他國家遊完回到柏林，就會覺得柏林的藝術界少一些商業化的東西。在維也納，每天都歌舞昇平－－甚麼莫扎特｀Strauss concerts每個都大同小異－－區別只是你是買了在莫扎特少時在維也納登台演出的地方看Mozart Concert還是在Schonbrunn皇宮看罷了。記得在柏林最後的幾天裡，去看了世界聞名的Berlin Philharmonic的另類表演。那天在Hans Scharoun設計的Berlin Philharmonic Hall看到的不是甚麼古典音樂，居然是非常非常現代的表演－－詩歌feats樂隊feats合唱團的古怪組合。現場的聽眾聽得各有己見。有些人為了表示不滿，大搖大擺提前離座－－那種誓要讓全場看見他們的態度。有些人為了抗衡不斷離場的觀眾又或為表欣賞的態度，在完場後站立著大力地非要拍爛了巴掌不可。我固然沒有明白那天的“music”或“show”。因為詩歌的部分全為德文（場刊永遠都是德文，相比布拉格永遠都有英文翻譯！）， 也因為表演方式實在太怪異－我真的沒有明白。但相比維也納每天都是一樣的場刊，和其他地方的博物館5點關門，還有所有景點都一絲不漏地被tourist info offices解剖在人面前，我更偏愛柏林在藝術上的自由發揮和把藝術推廣得更普遍，還有它的humbleness！在柏林任何大街小巷遊走，我不經意曾經過一兩面剩餘的柏林牆孤自豎立在教堂旁｀商場旁邊的小路｀和地鐵出口。沒有任何一本guidebook或local會告訴你所有berlin wall的remains在哪裡，除了最顯眼的那幾段牆面（East Side Gallery，Bernauer Street，etc）。而這些最體現原貌的零散的一兩面牆永遠有一個圖片和聲音並現的標牌在旁不顯眼地訴說那一點歷史。很多遊客來到柏林到訪的是East Side Gallery的柏林牆－－以為也就如此。卻不知道牆上的畫都是2000年後之作。柏林剩餘最長的一段柏林牆位於Bernauer Strasser，旁邊還有個免費的柏林牆博取館（只要是被認為有教育意義的博物館，門票都相當廉宜，如Jewish Museum； 不過Budapest的那個Jewish Museum＋Synagogue就相對是貴到搶荷包）。
越扯越遠。不過重點是，連我這個從來都不對藝術和博物館感興趣的人都在柏林愛上了藝術。而且，如今，對暑假的建築課和model building躍躍欲試呢！到時後，我才更確定自己是選design skills還是planning更重的program吧。
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