Rationality in planning : critical essays on the role of rationality in urban & regional planning
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Rationality in planning : critical essays on the role of rationality in urban & regional planning
Pion, c1985
- : hb
- : pbk
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Papers originally given in draft form to a workshop "Rationality in Planmaking" held at the University of Reading, Dec. 1982, sponsored by the British Section of the Regional Science Association, and others
Bibliography: p. [229]-247
Includes index
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Description
The debate about "rational" versus "pragmatic" procedures is important, both for the practice and the theory of public policymaking. This book focuses on the concept of "rationality" drawing on a wealth of theoretical and practical experience to make its contribution to the debate.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the role orf rationality in urban and regional planning
- rationality planning and the state
- the return of rationality
- practical rationality in planmaking
- rationality and its enemies
- an analysis of the use of the concept of rationality in the literature of planning
- formal reasoning in urban planning
- computers, complexity, and mathematical modelling
- the irrationality of "rationality" planning - exploring broader bases for planning and public decisionmaking
- rationality in planning and the search for community
- rationality in the public interest - notes towards a new synthesis
- can multiple-objective evaluation methods enhance rationality in planning?
- speculations on the bounds of rationality in US planning
- the practice of rationality - the case of the Coventry-Solihull-Warwickshire subregional planning study
- rationality in planmaking - a professional perspective.
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