TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooks, Michael P.
TI  - Planning theory for practitioners 
SN  - 1884829597 (pbk.)
U1  - 307.12 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Planners Press, American Planning Association
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface    5
Part 1 Introduction 
1.Planning Practice and Political Power 9
2.Planning Practice and Planning Theory     21
Part 2 Foundations of Public Planning
3.Running the Gauntlet of Planning Critics    35
4.Rationales for Public Planning    50
5.The Critical Role of Values and Ethics   62
Part 3 Alternative Paradigms for Public Planning Introduction
6.Centralized Rationality : the Planner as Applied Scientist 81
7.Centralized Non-Rationality : The Planner Confronts Politics    97
8.Decentralized Rationality : The Planner as Political Activist 107
9.Decentralized Non-Rationality : the planner as Communicator   119
Part 4 : Toward a More Practical Strategy  Introduction
10.Setting the Stage : Ideas, Feedback, Goals - and Trial Balloons    139
11.The Feedback Strategy of Public Planning  158
Part 5 : Effective Planning in a Political Milieu 
12.The Politically Savvy Planner 185
13.Vision 196
References     205
Index 213
ER  -