CHAPTER 6
Government Planning Response
Different Components
Planning theory is the body of scientific concepts, definitions, behavioral relationships, and assumptions that define the body of knowledge for urban planning. There are eight procedural theories of planning that remain the principal ones today: the rational–comprehensive approach (logical from problem identification through to solution); the incremental approach (based on everyday actual rather than planned); the transactive approach (communicative rationality), which is also the communicative approach; the advocacy approach (presenting issues from various groups); the equity approach (where urban planners work within government and use their research to influence opinion helping to ...
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