GGR361H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: John Friedmann, Transaction Cost, Policy Analysis
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Theories of planning are in agreement about some basic assumptions: influence decision making, shaping interventions concerning the environment, social context relating agency and structure, planning both constrained by space and mediated by space. Through the inertia of the built environment. Shaped by needs, context and culture and people. The exercise of planning automatically are involved in geographical action. Theories of planning are in disagreement about: level of autonomy, the normative form. Fried(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:859)s theory is the idea that pla(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is a disti(cid:374)(cid:272)t way of li(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g k(cid:374)owledge a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) His book is concerned with understanding planning as a form of science. Should planning inhereintely involve a critique of the system in order to make it better or should planning be something that maintains the system: the normative function. Theories of planning typically take two idea types: planning theory as explanation (cid:862)how pla(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g works(cid:863, planning theory as normative (cid:862)what pla(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g should do(cid:863)
