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[SES #] 5 [Study Questions] Development Planners are often faced with having to compromise in reconciling demands from very different groups, and are exposed to (sometimes conflicting) sets of responsibility (e.g. personal, professional, authority). Within this context, what is an ethical compromise? What is the ethics of planners remaining "neutral"? What responsibility should influence their practice? What is the source of ethical values? What ethical framework governs a context of radical cultural pluralism, as in a Western planner working in non-Western countries? [TOPICS] 
Concepts: The Question of Ethics
Study Questions | Introduction to International Development Planning | Urban Studies and Planning | MIT OpenCourseWare