Interdisciplinary planning : a perspective for the future
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Interdisciplinary planning : a perspective for the future
Center for Urban Policy Research, c1986
- pbk.
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 199-208
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Critiques of traditional urban planning are numerous. The debate about direction within the profession and why urban planning seems to be in a state of despair continues. However, and as Milan J. Dluhy and Kan Chen note, the more critical issue is the future direction of planning, particularly interdisciplinary planning. In this regard, they note five principal areas of concern: planning is action research, planning is knowledge driven, planning is both process and technologically oriented, planning is interdisciplinary, and planning is adaptive to emerging concerns.Reviewing the literature and empirical studies on roles and attitudes, the editors note that planners seem committed to symbols and expressions of advocacy as well as traditional planning doctrine. This emphasizes rational planning and neutral policy roles for practitioners. Without a guiding theory to give a unified approach to practice, planners remain free to select the role most compatible with their personal background and training. This volume asserts that diversity need not be a drawback as long as careful analysis and open planning processes are used.This title will be an invaluable resource. Part I illustrates the critical dilemmas in planning, Part II focuses on planning skills and orientations, the third part focuses sharply on planning roles, while the final section answers a fundamental question: can interdisciplinary planning offer a more useful perspective than others on how to achieve more successful planning outcomes?
Table of Contents
- I: Dilemmas in Planning
- 1: Planning Theory and Planning Practice: Roles and Attitudes of Planners
- II: Planning Skills and Orientations
- 2: How Rational Can Planning Be: Toward an Information Processing Model of Planning
- 3: Rational Processes for Environmental Planning
- 4: Technology Planning in Industry: The Classical Approach
- 5: Clarifying Complex Public Policy Issues: A Social Decision Analysis Contribution
- III: Planning Roles
- 6: Steering the Path Between Ambiguity and Overload: Planning as Strategic Social Process
- 7: Planning, Public Budgeting, and Politics: Maximizing the Impact of Advice Giving
- 8: Building Citizen Support for Planning at the Community Level
- IV: Interdisciplinary Planning
- 9: The Structural Approach to Planning and Policy Making
- 10: Technological Planning in Industry: Increasing Emphasis on Human Resource Considerations
- 11: Shifting Demands on Interdisciplinary Planning: An Educational Response
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