Interdisciplinary planning : a perspective for the future / edited by Milan J. Dluhy and Kan Chen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dluhy, Milan J., 1942-2015.

Chen, Kan, 1928-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Planning.

Physical Description:

xvii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Center for Urban Policy Research, [1986]

Summary:

This collection of essays offers several perspectives on urban planning that stress its technical as well as moral demands. Organization is in four sections covering dilemmas in planning, planning skills and orientations, planning roles, and interdisciplinary planning. The essays stress the need for planners to let go of strict rational planning approaches and take more direction from social processes and contexts. Some essays look to trends in industry for planning technological change. While they stress "the human element," the way that this human element participates in its own right is not clear. An alliance between legal, political and economic elites is recommended to planners wishing to be more than just an "isolated technician having little practical impact." The contributors are largely academics working in planning, social work and political science, but include industrial researchers and consultants. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 199-208.

ISBN:

0882851160 :

OCLC:

13358164