Planning Theory For Practitioners - 02 edition

1. Planning practice and political power
Public planning * Planning and political power

2. Planning practice and planning theory
The uses of theory in planning * Is there a theory-practice gap? * Planning theory today

3. Running the gauntlet of planning critics
Planning is perilous * Planning is impossible * Planning is impotent * Planning is malevolent * Planning is unconstitutional * Planning is ...alive and well

4. Rationales for public planning
The search for planning's bedrock * The public interest:real or illulsory? * Conclusions

5. The critical role of values and ethics
Values * Ethics * Conclusions

6. Centralized rationality:The planners as applied scientist
The nature of rationality * Rationality based planning strategies * The latest contender:Strategic planning * Current status of the rationality concept

7. Centralized nonrationality:The planner confronts politics
Simon says "satisfice" * Incrementalism * Current status of incrementalism

8. Decentralized rationality:The planner as political activist
Advocacy planning * Current status of advocacy planning

9. Decentralized nonrationality:the planner as communicator
Postmodernism * Planning as communicative action

10. Setting the stage:Ideas, feedback, goals and trail balloons
Where do planning ideas come from? * The critical role of feedback * Formulating workable goals:easier said than done * The benefits of creative trail ballooning

11. The feedback strategy of public planning
Planning as social experimentation * The habits of effective planners * The feedback strategy * How the feedback strategy relates to other paradigms * Potential shortcomings of the feedback strategy

12. The politically savvy planner
The nature of political savvy * The elements of political savvy

13. Vision
The importantance of vision * How to be a visionary and keep your job

References
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