1st Edition
Local Government and Strategic Choice (Routledge Revivals) An Operational Research Approach to the Processes of Public Planning
Forward to this edition; The origins of the book; Acknowledgements; Synopsis; Part I: An Appraisal of Planning in a Major Local Authority 1. An introduction to Coventry and its council 2. Four years of planning in Coventry 3. Planning and the mechanisms of decision 4. Information and uncertainty in planning Part II: Planning: A Process of Strategic Choice 5. The nature of planning 6. The operational problems of the planning process 7. Planning in its organizational context Part III: Towards a Technology for Strategic Choice 8. An approach through case examples 9. Case one: land allocation in a redevelopment area 10. Case two: priorities within a changing town 11. Case three: strategy for a sub-region 12. A general appraisal of the technology Part IV: The Organizational Challenge 13. Organizational choice in a local government 14. A case example in organizational choice 15. Prospects for public planning; Postscript; Supplementary bibliography; Index
Biography
John Friend, Neil Jessop
