Foundations of the Planning Enterprise: Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 1

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ISBN: 9780754627197 | 0754627195
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/28/2008

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The first volume in this three volume series, Foundations of the Planning Enterprise, includes articles and papers which offer a unique general introduction to planning theory. The authors review the subject's development, its recurrent themes, its contemporary preoccupation as rational scientific management and its relations to other fields.

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Introduction
The 'Project' of Planning Theory
Introduction; 2 centuries of planning theory: an overview
What is planning theory?
If planning is everything maybe it's nothing
Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
Comparison of current planning theories: counterparts and contradictions
Theoretical debates in planning: towards a coherent dialogue
Towards a new typology of urban planning theories
Without a net: modernist planning and the postmodern abyss
New directions in planning theory
Inspirational Precursors
Introduction
The town-country magnet
Civics: as concrete and applied sociology, part II
The myth of megalopolis
TVA and democratic planning
Planning and democracy F.A. Hayek
The concept of social control: planning as the rational mastery of the irrational
Planning as Rational Scientific Management
Introduction
A choice theory of planning
The science of 'muddling through'
The guidance and control of change: physical planning as the control of complex systems
The rationale of planning theory
Advocacy and pluralism in planning
Social planning, social planners and planned societies
A ladder of citizen participation
Examining the policy-action relationship
Foundations
Re-examining the international diffusion of planning
Name index
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Foundations of the Planning Enterprise: Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 1

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