Delusions and Diffusions of City Planning in the United States

A number of concepts and conditions in current city planning are questioned: the grand master plan delusion; planning after the fact; intermittent master planning; the illusion of complete study; avoiding the critical problems; trying to do everything; sematic confusion; conflicts of role and organization; unrealistic derivation of goals and objectives; failure of city planning in the general public interest; deficiencies of planning personnel; inadequacies of theory and research; underestimating fundamental difficulties of the city planning endeavor.

• 저널Management Science · 16(12) · B–714
• 토픽Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Studies
• DOI10.1287/mnsc.16.12.b714
• 저자Melville C. Branch