GGR361H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Alternative 3, New Urbanism, Economic Impact Analysis
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Planning" means the scientific, aesthetic and orderly disposition of land, resources, facilities and services with a view to securing the physical, economic and social efficiency, health and well-being of urban and rural communities. The rational model of plan-making and its limitations. Little evidence over theoretical concern over what planners do and how they do it. The mid-1950"s study of the chicago housing authorities efforts to build new housing projects was one of the first to consider how planners went about planning. The rational-comprehensive approach contended that a planner would be acting rationally by following three general steps: considering all the possible alternative courses of action in making a plan. Identifying and evaluating all of the consequences following from the adoption of each alternative: selecting the alternative that would most likely achieve the community"s most valued objectives. The 1990"s saw theorists focus primarily on two modes of plan making.
