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Charles Hoch
Researcher at University of Illinois at Chicago
Publications - 56
Citations - 1399
Charles Hoch is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spatial planning & Rational planning model. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 53 publications receiving 1305 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles Hoch include Oklahoma State University–Stillwater & University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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What Planners Do: Power, Politics, and Persuasion
TL;DR: In this article, a study of strategies used by urban planners in city governments of the United States to grapple with the political side of their profession is presented, focusing on the attitudes of planners toward the compromises they make to accommodate political conflict, budgetary constraints and bureaucratic red tape.
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Doing Good and Being Right The Pragmatic Connection in Planning Theory
TL;DR: For example, this paper argued that mainstream American planning theorists overlook the limits of this pragmatic connection, overestimating the efficacy of instrumental problem solving and underestimating the effects of an uneven distribution of power.
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New Homeless and Old: Community and the Skid Row Hotel
Charles Hoch,Robert A. Slayton +1 more
TL;DR: Hoch and Slayton as mentioned in this paper argue that the answers to one of the most pressing problems of our time come from the poor themselves, and that public urban renewal efforts, which destroyed the bulk of these hotels with the intent to rid the inner city of the Skid Row homeless, actually laid the foundation for today's urban homeless crisis.
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Evaluating Plans Pragmatically
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take up the topic of plan evaluation and compare two approaches, one using rational analysis, the other pragmatic reasoning, arguing that planners should place less emphasis on the rational analysis.
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Pragmatic Communicative Action Theory
TL;DR: Communicative action (CA) theory need not displace the critical insights of social scientists, geographers, and other urban scholars about the processes of social, economic, and political change that shape urban settlements as discussed by the authors.