TY  - BOOK
AU  - Protzen, Jean-Pierre
AU  - Harris, David J.
TI  - Universe of design : Horst Rittel's theories of design and planning
SN  - 0415779898
U1  - 711.4 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London & New York
PB  - Routledge
N1  - Contents Preface ix Acknowledgmentsxi Prologue1 Part One: Foundations21 1.1  Reflections on the Scientific and Political Significance of Decision Theory 23 1.2  Science and Design Seminars: Introduction: Out of the Cave 41 1.3  Seminar 1: Modes of Innovation 47 1.4  Seminar 2: Images and Messages 53 1.5  Seminar 3: Communications 63 1.6 Seminar 4: Establishing Order  71 1.7  Seminar 5: Measuring Values and Images 79 1.8  Seminar 6: Environments  85 1.9  Seminar 7: Design95 1.10Seminar 8: Models of and for Design (Part 1)  107 1.11Seminar 9: Models of and for Design (Part 2)  121 1.12Seminar 10: Conclusion135 Part Two: Wicked Problems147 2.1  On the Planning Crisis: Systems Analysis of the First and Second Generations  151 Part Three: Design Reasoning  167 3.1  Structure and Usefulness of Planning Information Systems  171 3.2  Issues as Elements of Information Systems  181 3.3  The Reasoning of Designers  187 Part Four: Consequences of Design  197 4.1  Technological Change and Urban Structure  199 4.2  On Rittel's Pathologies of Planning  215 Epilogue  233 References  239 Author Index 243 Subject Index245
ER  -