GEOG 3UP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Instrumental And Value Rationality, John Friedmann

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 3UP3
• Professor: Emad Mohammad

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Rational comprehensive planning (any human behaviour is justified by rationality) The comprehensive rational model (crm) evolved from the physical planning and design approach (alexander, 1988). The planning process consists of the following four steps: Define the goals in a specific/operational term to serve as a criterion of choice; Design of course of actions, where the planner defines the tactics to achieve the desires outcomes by attaining the ends (objectives); Comparative evaluation of consequences by identifying the wanted/the unwanted consequences (outcomes); The view of cities as systems entailed manipulating mechanistic movements of people and goods between function-defined locations to achieve greater choice. This allo(cid:449)ed the respo(cid:374)se to pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s (cid:862)i(cid:374) spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) a(cid:374)d o(cid:271)(cid:448)ious (cid:449)a(cid:455)s(cid:863) The utilitarian aspects dominated the rational approaches. Where(cid:271)(cid:455) pla(cid:374)(cid:374)ers take i(cid:374)(cid:272)re(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal steps (cid:271)ut (cid:272)he(cid:272)k for ea(cid:272)h step"s relatio(cid:374)ship to a (cid:271)ig pi(cid:272)ture goal. This includes a mix of: planners ideology, view of the society, values.