The classical model of rational planning is fundamentally flawed. It assumes widespread consensus on goals, causal theory sufficiently developed as to permit prediction, and effective instrumental knowledge. None of these conditions pertains. As a result, traditional development planning has...

An important but little studied feature of the British town-planning movement in the 1940s was the active participation of social scientists. The quite radical nature of the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act and associated legislation owed much to the activities of this group, both in the...

Following ideas presented in a previous paper, a formal rule-based model for defining transformations of languages of designs is introduced in brief. The model may be used to characterize relationships between historic styles of designs or to construct new and original styles from known ones....

The purpose of this paper is to examine the following questions: are the assumptions and approach of <I>Q</I>-analysis sufficiently novel for it to be accepted as offering a fundamentally new and important perspective for social scientific inquiry? And, if this proposition is at least partially...</i>

In this paper are described various approaches to implementing the plans evaluation steps of the SIRO-PLAN land-use planning method, including linear and goal programming and the LUPLAN simplification of the linear programming approach.

Fundamental both to <I>Q</I>-analysis and to social network analysis is the assumption that relational structure influences the behavior of the underlying population. This assumption is expressed in <nobr><I>Q</I>-analysis</nobr> by saying that the backcloth structure permits or forbids traffic on the backcloth. Backcloth...</i></i>

In this paper the author reflects on twenty years of experience in the development of a decision-centred approach to planning -- the strategic choice approach -- which has found application both as an aid to the understanding of observed planning processes and as a means of helping planners...

In this paper the authors describe the philosophy and basic features of the SIRO-PLAN land-use planning method. This is a procedure developed to suit Australian institutional arrangements for land-use planning and widely applied in that country since the mid-nineteen-seventies. It may be...