Professional Ethics Codes in Planning

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.