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- Title
New Comprehensiveness in City Planning.
- Authors
Daland, Robert T.; Kraemer, Kenneth L.
- Abstract
The article discusses several books on city planning and related issues. The institution and profession of planning has changed considerably over the last 50 years, and that change can be characterized by noting a trend common to virtually all facets of what might be called the evolving philosophy of urban planning. In the past, the professional differences reflected a series of dichotomies like plan or process, fact or value, ends or means, social or economic, centralization or decentralization, general or detailed, comprehensive or partial, long-range or short-range, local or areawide. The most apparent change in planners' perceptions relates to the nature of planning and plans. Planning today is viewed broadly as an organizational process of moving toward provisional goals rather than as the delineation of an ideal state to be achieved at some future date. This process-oriented view is encouraging a shift in emphasis from plans to concern for an activity stream relating to problem and goal definition, program design and execution, and feedback and evaluation. It involves such concepts as pulse taking, policy testing, programming, scheduling, monitoring and re- cycling.
- Subjects
SOCIOECONOMICS; CITIES &; towns; URBAN General Plan, The (Book); URBAN planning; URBAN Land Use Planning (Book); REGIONAL planning; CITY Planning Process (Book); URBAN beautification; PRINCIPLES &; Practice of Urban Planning (Book); LAND use planning
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1968, Vol 28, Issue 4, p382
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Book Review