Shahid Beheshti University Sustainable Development of Geographical Environment 2476-5805 2 2 2020 08 22 Professional Ethics Codes in Planning Professional Ethics Codes in Planning 184 199 99143 10.52547/sdge.2.2.184 FA Behzad Malekpourasl Department of Urban and Regional planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Fereshteh Dastvareh Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Earth Science, Shahid Beheshti University,Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2020 06 08 This article attempts to review and explicate Planning ethics concept, largely as articulated by exponents of the practical ethics, in terms of the planning theory. The paper can be read in a sequence of a larger argument about planning ethics and it makes more urgent the existing critiques of planning theories without ethical direction. We develop –based on thematic analysis method - how professional ethics codes in planning produce important issues that must be considered. So at the very core of the article is an attempt to recompose of the ethical view about planning tactics in the decision-making process, to break out from idealism of conventional planning theory to make space for the insights of realistic thinking about planner behavior. The article argues therefore that the idea of problem-oriented ethics in planning can go realized. This article attempts to review and explicate Planning ethics concept, largely as articulated by exponents of the practical ethics, in terms of the planning theory. The paper can be read in a sequence of a larger argument about planning ethics and it makes more urgent the existing critiques of planning theories without ethical direction. We develop –based on thematic analysis method - how professional ethics codes in planning produce important issues that must be considered. So at the very core of the article is an attempt to recompose of the ethical view about planning tactics in the decision-making process, to break out from idealism of conventional planning theory to make space for the insights of realistic thinking about planner behavior. The article argues therefore that the idea of problem-oriented ethics in planning can go realized. https://egsdejournal.sbu.ac.ir/article_99143_c27fc53ef089efb1abea2d791a690d98.pdf