This study develops an understanding of theoretical and pragmatic concerns within design professions (architecture/landscape architecture) and social science professions (planning at large) that hamper the development of integrative urban design visions.
They are the somewhat more pragmatic, interventionist strands of the profession.
Operating within a tradition of university autonomy, the governance of these programmes is nonetheless constrained by the accreditation and certification requirements of the state and the profession and the pragmatic demands of teachers' work.
In the past, my own attempts to voice this perspective in book talks and on professional panels have surprised some audience members who ask why a lawyer trained by his profession to give pragmatic advice---is espousing the human messages of urban design, and suggesting that inductive observation and place-based memory can impact the urban environment in a practical way.
However, others admitted more pragmatic reasons for initially joining their profession, mostly linked to limited career opportunities, either when apartheid policies restricted career paths (especially for black women) [ 43], or post-1994, where training is state-subsidized.
Ironically, this pragmatic (open) system of fraud is the auditing profession's raison d'être: without it, there would be no need for the attest function, as we now know it.
Part of him had a romantic response to all that beauty, but he was pragmatic, too, Ms. Mayer said: "He wanted to make his art into a legitimate profession, a way to create beauty and make money at the same time".
I added -- "Maybe adults should pursue their passion as profession?" She responded, "That would be ideal, but what would be more pragmatic is to find ways to reduce mental exhaustion in whatever you do".
Physicians constitute a core group in healthcare, and being pragmatic is a way to maintain a certain degree of control in relation to a strong and important profession.
