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Pragmatic Spatial Planning: Practial Theory for Professionals book cover

1st Edition

Pragmatic Spatial Planning Practial Theory for Professionals

By Charles Hoch Copyright 2019
204 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 planning in the US, and globally, continues to suffer from a weak conceptual grasp of its own practice. Practitioners routinely recognize the value and wisdom of practical judgment finely attuned to context, nuance... Read more

Introduction

Part I

1. Practical Judgment & Planning

2. Emotional Intelligence in Planning Judgment

Part II

3. Integrating the Planning Field, Movement and Discipline

4. Anticipating Complex Spatial Change

5. Planning Imagination: Utopia, Scenario & Plan

Part III

6. Crafting Plans

7. Evaluating Plans

8. How Planning Theory Informs Planning Practice

Part IV

9. Planning Spatial Community in a Complex Society

10. Ethical Planning Judgment

Biography

Professor Charles Hoch studies planning activity across scale and discipline. He has spent four decades studying and proposing that we treat planning as an inherently pragmatic enterprise. Hoch received his doctorate in Urban Planning from UCLA in 1981. After a short stint at Iowa State he settled in Chicago teaching urban planning in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, USA.

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