planning Flashcards
types of planning descriptions
-planning as a basic human activity
-planning as a rational choice
-planning as control of future action
-planning as a special kind of problem solving
Basic activity that pervades human behavior at every level of society
planning as a basic human activity
choice that meets certain standards of consistency and logic
planning as a rational choice
the ability to control the future consequences of present actions
planning as control of future action
Planning’s purpose
make the future different from what it would have been without the intervention
what planning is not
-not a purely individual activity
-not present-oriented
-cannot be routinized
-has little or nothing in common with trial and error approaches to problem solving
-not just imagining of desirable futures
planning must be
-societal
-future-oriented
-non-routinized
-deliberate
-action oriented
is the deliberate social or organizational activity of developing an optimal strategy for achieving a desired set of goals
planning
central feature of planning
rationality
a way of choosing the best means to attain a given end
rationality
a tool that enables us to make choices according to certain standards of logic
rationality
logic of axioms
rationality
axioms of logic in planning
-preferences must be transitive
-probabilities and utilities must be independent
-inadmissibility of dominated choices
ranked in order: from best to worst
preferences must be transitive
one’s assessment of the likelihood that some event or outcome will happen (its probability) should not be affected by the value one would assign to that event or outcome (its utility)
probabilities and utilities must be independent
superior option must be chosen
inadmissibility of dominated choices
contextual planning models
-comprehensive planning
-social planning
-advocacy planning
-bureaucratic planning
-radical or anti-planning
-nonplanning
recognizes complexity of factors affecting physical land or land use decisions
comprehensive planning
oriented towards social needs more that to physical planning
social planning
considers special and/or marginalized groups
advocacy planning
value-neutral administrator
bureaucratic planning
social change outside the governmental establishment or in active opposition to it
radical or antiplanning
people’s behavior and interaction will eventually produce socially optimal outcomes with minimum regulation
nonplanning
planner’s roles
-technician administrator
-political roles
-mobilizer
-mediator
-entrepreneur
-advocate and guerilla
technical expert at the service of elected officials
technician administrator