Archibugi Planning Theory

From the Political Debate to the Methodological Reconstruction
2008
ISBN: 978-88-470-0696-6
Verlag: Springer Milan
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 132 Seiten

Planning Theory expresses a sound unease about the direction taken by the current analysis and criticism of planning experiences. To oppose the debate that freezes planning as a permanently declining engagement, this book aims to identify the essential guidelines of a re-launch of planning processes and techniques, configuring a kind of neo-discipline. This builds upon a multi-disciplinary integration - never seen and experimented with until now.

Professor of Planning (in several Italian Universities, and lastly at the Postgraduate School of Public Administration, Rome; President of the Planning Studies Centre, Rome). He has been consultant of many international institutions (UNDP, UNESCO, UN-ECE, UNEP, OECD, European Union, Council of Europe and others) and of the Italian Government. Author of some books in economics and planning, which have had international audience within the scientific community, like The Associative Economy (Macmillan, 2000), The Ecological City (Ashgate, 1997), Economy and Ecology (co-ed., Kluwer, 1992), and others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Archibugi, Franco

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contents;9
3;1. PlanningTheory: Reconstruction or Requiem?;12
3.1;... A Certain Uneasiness about PlanningTheory”;12
3.2;... HaveWe Improved the Clarity of Planning Methodology?;13
3.3;... What Are the Reasons for the Deceiving Development of PlanningTheory?;15
3.4;... PlanningTheory: General or Not?;22
3.5;... A Vade-Mecum for Good Planners’ Professional Relations?;23
3.6;... Deontology and Epistemology of the Profession;25
4;2. In Search of Integration: The Past Negative Experience;27
4.1;... Expectations and Results from the Integration of the Planning Sciences;27
4.2;... The Bad Course of the Debate;31
4.3;... Is a Positive Reconstruction of PlanningTheory Possible?;32
5;3 Towards a New Uni.ed Discipline of Planning;34
5.1;... The Fields of Activity;34
5.2;... TheMerits and Limits of the Trans-Disciplinary Approach;43
5.3;... Positivist”- Type Decision-Making Analysis;44
5.4;... Social Reality is Subjective Reality;45
5.5;... Voluntarist”- Type Decision-Making Analysis;46
5.6;... A Defect of Approach or One of Further Elaboration?;47
6;4. The First Routes of the New Discipline;50
6.1;... Schemes of Procedure for the Preparation of Plans and the Construction of Suitable Accounting Frames”;51
6.2;... Schemes of the Systemic Interrelationship Between Plan Levels;52
6.3;... Institutional Procedures of Plan Bargaining” and Preference Consultation Systems;53
6.4;... Information Systems for Planning and TheirManagement;54
6.5;... Monitoring and Plan Evaluation Systems;55
7;5. Some Integrative Topics of the New Planning Discipline;56
7.1;... Integration Between (Conventional) Economic Accounting Systems and Social Accounting Systems;57
7.2;... Integration Between Socio-Economic Planning ( and Related Accounting) and Technological Forecasting;58
7.3;... Integration Between Socio-Economic Planning ( and Related Accounting) and Physical ( or Territorial or Environmental) Planning;59
7.4;... Integration Between Socio-Economic (and Physical) Planning and Institutional Organisation and Negotiation;59
7.5;... Integration Between Socio-Economic Planning and the Institutional Systemand Design;60
7.6;... Concluding Remarks: The Planological Approach”;61
8;6. Planning Science: Basic Postulates and Logical Framework for Reference;63
8.1;... From Planning Theory” to Planning Science”;63
8.2;... A reference Framework for Planning Science: Some Essential Postulates;64
8.3;... The Planning Process;70
8.4;... The Planning System;71
8.5;... Conclusions;80
9;7. The Future of National Planning Systems: Some New Steps;81
9.1;... The Concept of National Planning”;81
9.2;... National Planning in a Systemic Vision;82
9.3;... What Opportunities Exist for the Systemic- Type Development of National Planning?;83
9.4;... The American Federal Strategic Planning: Its E . ects on the National Planning Future;87
9.5;... From Strategic Planning to National Economic Programming: A Necessary Step Towards Systemic Planning;88
9.6;... Toward a Scienti. c and Professional Approach to the Systemic Planning;89
10;8. Planning and Plan Evaluation: SomeWell- Known and Often Neglected Pitfalls;91
10.1;... Logical Indeterminateness: Evaluation” vs Values”;92
10.2;... Systemic Disconnectedness;96
10.3;... Strategic Insubordination;97
10.4;... Self-Referencing;98
10.5;... Sub-Optimization;100
10.6;... Bounded Rationality;100
11;9. Conclusions;105
11.1;... A question of Prepositions;105
11.2;... A Question of Adjectivization”;106
11.3;... The Rational” Approach Case and the Communicative” or Collaborative” One;108
11.4;... The Diagonal of Planology”;110
12;Bibliographical References;113
13;Authors Index;124
14;Analytical Index;127