Planning practice involves a variety of specialties, interest areas, and orientations that makes the profession unique and all-encompassing. This unique broadness has left practitioners struggling for answers to some basic questions regarding policy, planning agenda, planners' contributions, and so on. This article is an attempt to bring some of those questions to the surface and to delineate the areas of agreement and dispute among planners practicing today at various levels and in various situations. It also raises many questions about the role of planners, their input or degree of influence in the decision-making process, the differences between what they believe and what they practice, and the trend orientation of the profession.