Rule and order : Dutch planning doctrine in the twentieth century
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Rule and order : Dutch planning doctrine in the twentieth century
(The GeoJournal library, v. 28)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1994
Available at 4 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-273) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is about an art in which the Netherlands excels: strategic planning. Foreign observers will need little convincing of the merits of Dutch planning. They will want to know whether routine explanations (small country, industrious, disciplined people hardened by the perennial fight against the sea) hold any water, and they will want to know where to look for the bag of tricks of Dutch planners. Dutch readers need to be convinced first that planning in the Netherlands is indeed effective before contemplating how this has come about. Our message for both is that, to the extent that Dutch planners do live in what others are inclined to see as a planners' paradise, it is a paradise carefully constructed and maintained by the planners themselves. This smacks of Bernard Shaw describing a profession as a conspiracy against laity. However, all knowledge and all technologies are 'socially constructed', meaning that they are the products of people or groups pursuing often conflicting aims and coming to arrangements about what is to pass as 'true' and 'good'. So this takes away the odium of Dutch planners having their own agenda. Positioning ourselves We are in the business of interpreting Dutch planning, and at the same time committed to improving it. This makes us part of the situation which we describe. This situation is characterized by the existence of two divergent traditions, urban design and the social-science discipline called 'planologie'.
Table of Contents
Preface. Part 1: Background. 1. The Concept of Planning Doctrine. 2. Context and Roots of Strategic Planning. Part 2: The Unfolding of Planning. 3. `Planning is like Pregnancy, You can't Have just a Little'. 4. The Morning After: May 10th, 1940 and the Consequences. Part 3: Reconstruction. 5. Thinking on One's Feet. 6. A New Rationale. Part 4: The Heyday. 7. Planners find their Feet. 8. Doctrine at the Zenith. 9. Provincial Planning the Linchpin? 10. The Taste of Success. Part 5: Crisis and Response. 11. The Seeds of Doubt. 12. Forward Defense. 13. A Return to the Roots? Part 6: Conclusions. 14. Sharing the Blame (but not the Glory?) 15. Lessons. Note on English Literature on Dutch Planning. Bibliography of Works in English. Footnotes. Index.
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