Planning Behavior: Theories and Experiments

✍ Scribed by Shih-Kung Lai

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While ordinary people tend to make myopic, independent decisions, planners deal with linked decisions intentionally and act accordingly in space and time. Little has been said, however, about how these linked decisions should be made. This collection of essays extends the concepts derived from decision theory in order to explain planning phenomena, particularly planning behavior. The book contains work gathered over a period thirty years that covers micro-decision making and macro-plan making processes in the context of urban planning. It answers the questions of why urban containment policies fail in stopping urban sprawl, how land development decisions are analyzed, and, more fundamentally, why cities need plans. Through the lens of decision theory, this book provides a fresh look at how planners do and should behave in making and using plans in the face of urban complexity.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword • Lewis D. Hopkins
Preface
1. Differential Effects of Outcome and Probability on Risky Decisions in Gams and Losses
2. Frame and Contingent Utility for Risky Choices
3. Land Development Decisions and Lottery Dependent Utility
4. Isolation Effect as a Source of Myopic Planning for Urban Development
5. Comparison of Regimes of Policies for Urban Development: A Social Welfare Approach
6. Effects of Urban Containment Policy on Land Development Decisions
7. Toward a Solution to the Voting Dilemma
8. Information Structure Exploration as Planning for a Unitary Organization
9. An Anatomy of Time Explicit Planning Behavior for Urban Complexity
10. Toward a Behavioral Planning Theory
11. Why Plans Matter for Cities
12. Managing Urban Complexity through Decision Coordination
Index