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Local Government and Strategic Choice: An Operational Research Approach to the Processes of Public Planning
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This article is published in Sociology.The article was published on 1970-05-01. It has received 36 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Local government.read more
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Understanding and Managing the Unknown The Nature of Uncertainty in Planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify dimensions of uncertainty in planning and use them to assist planners in establishing planning processes and in managing their ongoing dynamics, which will assist in pushing the bounds of possibility, and this will raise Uncertainty and the possibility of disagreement and failure.
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Tackling “Wicked Problems” in Planning Studio Courses:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use content analysis of university syllabi to determine the degree to which planning studios are preparing students to tackle "wicked problems" upon graduation, based on the lessons learned from a workshop pertaining to natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, and offer guidance to instructors of studio-type courses who wish to introduce their students to complex problem solving.
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Influences on Tourism Development Decision Making: Coastal Local Government Areas in Eastern Australia
Harold Richins,Philip L. Pearce +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a typology of community decision-making influence factors was examined through research on local government councillors in Australian coastal regions and three major categories of this typology were identified in the literature and further explored in this study: inter-personal, intra-personal and circumstantial influence.
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Autonomous planning: Using plans as signals:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on making one plan and implementing it, however, plans are made and used by many autonomous agents, a variety of organizations, and a wide range of people.
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Coherentist Theories of Planning are Possible and Useful
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on Miller and Hurle's work to show that the possibility of a complete general theory of planning set out along the lines of a generalist, a priori, covering-law model is open.
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Understanding and Managing the Unknown The Nature of Uncertainty in Planning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify dimensions of uncertainty in planning and use them to assist planners in establishing planning processes and in managing their ongoing dynamics, which will assist in pushing the bounds of possibility, and this will raise Uncertainty and the possibility of disagreement and failure.
Journal ArticleDOI
Tackling “Wicked Problems” in Planning Studio Courses:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use content analysis of university syllabi to determine the degree to which planning studios are preparing students to tackle "wicked problems" upon graduation, based on the lessons learned from a workshop pertaining to natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, and offer guidance to instructors of studio-type courses who wish to introduce their students to complex problem solving.
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Influences on Tourism Development Decision Making: Coastal Local Government Areas in Eastern Australia
Harold Richins,Philip L. Pearce +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a typology of community decision-making influence factors was examined through research on local government councillors in Australian coastal regions and three major categories of this typology were identified in the literature and further explored in this study: inter-personal, intra-personal and circumstantial influence.
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Autonomous planning: Using plans as signals:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on making one plan and implementing it, however, plans are made and used by many autonomous agents, a variety of organizations, and a wide range of people.
Journal ArticleDOI
Coherentist Theories of Planning are Possible and Useful
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on Miller and Hurle's work to show that the possibility of a complete general theory of planning set out along the lines of a generalist, a priori, covering-law model is open.