Planning is more than development, it is how people interact with the ground, sky and everything in between.
The basics of planning has been founded on observation and quantification. It has flown towards law and planning codes. Planning is bigger than this, planning is about sewing the social aspects of humanity as a species into the nature of our environment, as well as place of stabilization and organization of society.
Psychohisory
If variables of humanity can be qualified we can predict the future.