Architects and planners worry that developers might try to recreate some fairy-tale version of the city, compromising its 300-year-old character.

In the new draft, the planners rightly worry about a resurgent and authoritarian Russia.

And though they are hugely ambitious, some planners worry that not enough broad thinking has been done about what is being created for future generations of New Yorkers.

Mr. Anderson and other planners worry that decentralization will mean a sprawl gobbling up forests and overwhelming highways.

Traditionally, financial planners have worried about making sure a retiree's money lasts, assuming expenses will be uniform throughout retirement.

Throughout the region, the number of jobs has grown faster than new homes have been built, leading planners to worry that a housing shortage could hurt economic growth.

Military planners have worried that Iraq might place chemical or biological agents in missile warheads.

Local planners worry that the estimated average losses of $22 million a day since the storm will continue indefinitely.

Still, he and urban planners worry that as more small shops close or move to outlying malls, the city centers will lose their character and become unsafe.

Physicians and planners also worry about the coal pollution people generate in their homes.