A Systems View of Planning
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A Systems View of Planning

Towards a Theory of the Urban and Regional Planning Process

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Systems View of Planning

Towards a Theory of the Urban and Regional Planning Process

About this book

A Systems View of Planning: Towards a Theory of the Urban and Regional Planning Process, Second Edition covers theories of the process of town and regional planning. The book discusses physical change and human ecology; the theory of planning; the variety and entropy of systems; and planning as a conceptual system. The text also describes space and spatial planning; goal formulation in planning; exploratory and normative techniques and intuitive methods in projecting the system; and operational models and their underlying theories. Using linear programming and entropy methods; major aspects of evaluation, program budgeting, cost benefit analysis, and matrix methods; and the spatial method for regional planning are also covered. The book tackles the mixed-programming strategy as well. Engineers, architects, farmers, and foresters will find the book invaluable.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. A Systems View of Planning: Towards a Theory of the Urban and Regional Planning Process
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER 1. Physical Change and Human Ecology
  10. CHAPTER 2. What is Planning?
  11. CHAPTER 3. Systems
  12. CHAPTER 4. Planning as a Conceptual System
  13. CHAPTER 5. On Space and Spatial Planning
  14. CHAPTER 6. Goals
  15. CHAPTER 7. Projecting the System: What is the Future?
  16. CHAPTER 8. Models
  17. CHAPTER 9. Some Operational Models and Their Underlying Theories
  18. CHAPTER 10. Modelling "The Whole System"
  19. CHAPTER 11. Evaluation
  20. CHAPTER 12. A Spatial Method for Regional Planning
  21. CHAPTER 13. Satisfaction or Optimisation? The Bounds of Rationality
  22. CHAPTER 14. Management and Planning
  23. CHAPTER 15. Plan or Programme?
  24. CHAPTER 16. A Mixed-Programming Strategy
  25. Note on Mathematics
  26. Glossary
  27. Index
  28. URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING SERIES