What planners do : power, politics, and persuasion
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What planners do : power, politics, and persuasion
Planners Press, American Planning Association, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-353) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780918286901
Description
What do planners do? To find out, Charles Hoch interviewed 29 practicing planners and observed how they interacted with staff, citizens, and public officials. In What Planners Do, he tells their stories.
The most effective planners have more than just technical skills. They also possess political and organizational savvy. You'll learn how planners employ the arts of resistance, innovation, and persuasion while working in the trenches of local government; how they respond to the moral and political conflicts that pervade their profession; and how they balance individual autonomy and social responsibility.
Written in an accessible style, this book is must reading for all those intrigued by what planners do.
Table of Contents
1. Planning and professional authority in a liberal society 2. The quest for institutional authority 3. The rational protocol and political conflict 4. Research and rationality 5. Making plans 6. Planning regulation 7. Negotiation and the bottom line 8. Organizing for change 9. Racism and planning 10. Research on effective planning 11. Planning deliberation and politics 12. Professional authority: Craft, character, and community
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: hrd ISBN 9780918286918
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A study of strategies used by urban planners in city governments of the United States to grapple with the political side of their profession. Hoch focuses on the attitudes of planners toward the compromises they make to accommodate political conflict, budgetary constraints and bureaucratic red tape. The book covers the ways planners utilize research, formulate plans, regulate development, organize political coalitions, cope with racial discrimination, and negotiate with members of business groups, community organizations and government agencies. Throughout, Hoch identifies the pitfalls of common approaches taken by planners and gives examples of helpful alternatives. The analysis features responses from interviews the author conducted with 32 professional planners who share insights and observations about their experiences and describe their reactions to problems encountered on the job, from enforcing building codes to selling a town council on a renovation project.
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