PLANNING IN ITS POLITICAL CONTEXT: Developing Organizational Strategies for the Planning Agency by Daniel Stephen Greenbaum Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning on August 9, 1974, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of City Planning. Planners are trained to provide rational technical analysis of public policy issues to guide governmental acti...

unplanned urban development imposes significant pressure on land resources and land use structures and brings about many negative socio-economic and environmental consequences. therefore, comprehensive studies should be applied to support urban land use management in the world and especially in developing countries. in iran, like many other developing countries, urban development is fast and of...

This article presents the development and application of a methodology that employs optimization not to seek the single or few optimal plan(s) but to provide planners with a systematic overview of their decision space. As urban development projects are not only subject to decisions of planners but also to those of many actors, the insight about how different actors would decide based on the dec...

rational knowledge-claims, consisting of theoretical propositions expressing a judgment about complex urban problems, are not new. the audiences, i.e. the public whose lives are affected by such claims, have begun to question the claims of rationality in urban planning. in response, each urban planner, believing in a particular theory or point of reference, endeavors to challenge competing theo...

In most management domains, problem-solving and decision-making are overwhelming because of the high volume of complicated data, the multiple complex relationships among data, the negotiability of the constraints, the changing environment, and time pressure. Most existing computer systems, such as expert systems, decision support systems, and simulation systems, have built-in functionalities an...

Electronic cities result from the implication of information and communication technology (ICT) in the contemporary era. Significant ICT development and internet network expansion as well as the need of urban management to new ideas in managing cities lead us toward a new strategy called "electronic cities". The current study aims at investigating the Electronic Cities' Strategic Plan...