Planning is a moral endeavor in which planners must make ethical choices. To investigate the issue of values in planning, this paper examines the ethical views of planning students and practitioners. Responding to a fifteen question survey, the two groups of respondents differed significantly in assessing the morality of a number of planning issues. Professional planning experience tended to diminish these differences between the two groups. Variables such as gender seemed to have little explanatory power. An enhanced role of ethics in planning curricula and professional practice should shed light on these discrepancies and focus attention on the substantive moral content inherent to the field.
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