Intro + RP Flashcards
3 Key elements of planning
- Land/environment
- People
- Resources
“Planning is concerned with providing the right site at the right time, in the right place, for the right people”
John Ratcliffe
3 key actors in planning (threefold image of society)
- Government
- Private sector
- Civil society
7 attributes of the planning process
- Scientific
- Multi-disciplinary
- Comprehensive
- Dynamic
- Iterative
- Participatory
- Time-bound
The desired end-state, long time horizon
Vision
Broad, long-term ends; always related to a community
Goals
Operational reformulation of goals
Objectives
Guide to actions to carry out objectives
Policy
Collection of complementary projects/activities formulated to achieve the functions of a sector
Program
A self-contained unit of investment aimed at developing resources within a time period
Project
Short-term effort by one or several members of a team
Activities
A combination of psychomotor actions leading to the accomplishment of an activity
Tasks
An element or subsystem of a whole having coherent functions
Sector
Long-range, top-down, physical kind of planning
Static planning / blueprint planning / masterplan approach
Type of planning which makes use of scientific and mathematical tools; “diagnosis before treatment”
Synoptic planning / rational-comprehensive-adaptive planning
Proponent of the survey-analysis-plan
Patrick Geddes
4 classical elements of synoptic planning
- Goal setting
- Identification of policy alternatives
- Evaluation of means vs ends
- Implementation of policy
The only thing permanent is change
Systems view of planning
The communication and control systems in living organisms, machines, and organizations
Cybernetics
Proponent of Cybernetics
Norbert Weiner
Proponent of the Systems Planning Approach
George Chadwick
6 steps of the Systems Planning Approach
- Problem finding
- System description
- System modelling
- System projection
- System synthesis
- System control
The “science of muddling through”; planning becomes a practice of what is feasible politically vs of what is technically effective
Incremental Planning
Proponent of incremental planning
Charles Lindbloom
2 kinds of participatory planning
- Advocacy planning
2. Communicative planning
Type of planning that aims for social justice and pluralism of plans
Advocacy planning
Proponent of the pluralistic view of politics and governance
Paul Davidoff
Proponent of Rules for Radicals
Saul David Alinsky