PLG 830 Lecture 2: Week 2
28 Jan 2019
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Ideally, we can harmonize these policies to achieve some coherent social objective but we are far from reaching that capability. Why: complexity of the city, disciplinary approach rather than interdisciplinary, disconnect between spatial form and social process in urban analysis, difficult to define what is meant by coherent social objective (biggest issue) Social justice and the city: convincing of justice in urban policy. Generalized models: welfare state: paternalistic city, new-liberal state: entrepreneurial city, politics of difference: multicultural city, equitable distribution: just city. Individual as an end: context of interdependency (we all rely on each other, equity oriented expertise. Technocratic planning: good planning guided by experts (late 1800-early 1900s) Rational comprehensive (post ww2: planning guided by rational decision-making process. Incremental planning (1950s-1960s: good planning guided by making incremental changes science of muddling through , charles lindbalm, taking issues as they come up, too many interests; impossible to evaluate them all and too costly, address issues as they come.
