A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The importance of attitudes and values in planning is stressed in support of the assertion that city planning is a means for determining policy. Appropriate planning must be based on desired objectives and the planner should be an advocate for what he considers important. This is one aspect of an urban democracy; in another aspect citizens play an active role in determining public policy. It is the role of the public planning agency to decide upon appropriate future courses of action for the community, but alternative plans should be presented by other citizen's groups and the public informed of the alternative choices. The public agency would then be forced to compete with other groups for political support. When this kind of plural planning is practiced, the planner becomes an advocate of certain solutions. This adversary proceeding would force the planner to evaluate the various plans before advocating one. Planning by special interest groups and the public planning agency could certainly co-exist. City planners must be concerned with physical, economic, and social planning and with coordinating the effects of each city program upon other programs.
The importance of attitudes and values in planning is stressed in support of the assertion that city planning is a means for determining policy. Appropriate planning must be based on desired objectives and the planner should be an advocate for what he considers important. This is one aspect of an urban democracy; in another aspect citizens play an active role in determining public policy. It is the role of the public planning agency to decide upon appropriate future courses of action for the community, but alternative plans should be presented by other citizen's groups and the public informed of the alternative choices. The public agency would then be forced to compete with other groups for political support. When this kind of plural planning is practiced, the planner becomes an advocate of certain solutions. This adversary proceeding would force the planner to evaluate the various plans before advocating one. Planning by special interest groups and the public planning agency could certainly co-exist. City planners must be concerned with physical, economic, and social planning and with coordinating the effects of each city program upon other programs.
Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning
P. Davidoff (author)
1965
7 pages
Report
No indication
English
Planning Methodology , Health planning , Strategy , Strategies , Political science , Participative management , Methodology , Management , Local government , Health care , Evaluation , Consumers , Community relations , Agencies , Attitudes , HRP/ZZ , HRP/BD , HRP/BDA , HRP/BG , HRP/RAA , HRP/AE , HRP/AD , HRPGEO/YNO , HRPOCC/XZ
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