The planning game : an information economics approach to understanding urban and environmental management / Alex Lord.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lord, Alex, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Economic aspects.

City planning.

Regional planning--Economic aspects.

Regional planning.

Urban economics.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Information economics approach to understanding urban and environmental management

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of the debate.Dialogue between economics and planning theorists has been, until now, rare. Lord argues that information economics' tool kit, game theory - including well-known examples such as the Prisoners' Dilemma, the Stag Hunt game and Follow the Leader - offers an analytical framework idea

Contents:

Introduction

Planning in the "information age"

Is there something wrong with planning theory?

Is there an alternative way of understanding planning?

The infusion of economics into planning thought

Introducing the planning game

Conflict, power and risk

Bargaining, negotiation and tactics

Team games, coalitions and collaboration

Putting the planning game in context.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-68242-6

9786613659361

0-203-12744-7

1-136-46258-9

9780203127445

OCLC:

804665677