A Nobel-winning physicist argues that fundamental physical laws are found not in the world
of atoms, but in the macroscopic world around us In this age of superstring theories and Big …

Problem: Catastrophic disasters like Hurricane Katrina disrupt urban systems, economies,
and lives, and pose huge problems for local governments and planners trying to organize …

If planning is to matter for urban development and policy, it is not sufficient for plans to be
implemented. Plans and planning must also have a causal role—they must lead to …

Research about plans and resulting guidance for practice tend to focus on making one plan
and implementing it. Plans are made and used, however, by many autonomous agents, a …

This article presents a view and a methodology of planning evaluation. This view integrates
elements from three different types of planning evaluation, based on rationality ex ante …

Conceiving planning theory as a kind of practical reason shifts attention from making rational
arguments justifying planning beliefs to the study of plan-making as a feature of practical …

Wide participation, in the urban planning context, is justified as the means of balancing
multiple interests outside the traditional decision-making setup. However, this article argues …

Instead of seeking theory to justify practical professional judgments this book describes how
professionals can and should use theory to guide these judgments. Professional spatial …

More than half a century has passed since the first use of models in urban planning. Most
urban planners have agreed on using models either to simplify complicated systems or to …

While cities continue to cast a large environmental imprint on their regionally proximate
environments, they are also exerting a stronger influence on the natural systems of more …