Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning

✍ Scribed by Michael Batty, Bruce Hutchinson (auth.), Michael Batty, Bruce Hutchinson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 604
• Series: NATO Conference Series 12
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In September 1980, the Special Programme Panel on Systems Sciences of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sponsored an Advanced Research Institute (ARI) on "Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning" which was held at New College, Univer­ sity of Oxford, from 21st to 27th September. This week-long meeting brought together 35 invited delegates from most countries of the NATO Alliance to discuss the impact which syst~ms analysis has had and is likely to have on urban affairs. The manuscript was submitted to the publisher in June of 1982. Although the goal of the ARI was to assess the impact of urban systems analysis as seen through the eyes of those closely involved in such work, the meeting also addressed opportunities for future research and development, and therefore in this book we have attempted to synthesize discussions at the meeting with this in mind. But before we describe the structure of this book, it is worth recounting in a little more detail the intentions and organi­ zation of the meeting, for this has had an important effect on the type of papers produced here, the way they have been written, and the issues they address.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning: Background to the NATO Advanced Research Institute....Pages 3-11
Introduction to the Papers....Pages 13-15
The Poverty of Problem Solving....Pages 17-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The Technology of Urban Systems Modelling: Nagging Questions, Sagging Hopes, and Reasons for Continued Research....Pages 31-51
The Effectiveness of Urban Transport Systems Analysis....Pages 53-67
Systematic Methods in Strategic Land Use Planning: Some Reflections on Recent British Experience....Pages 69-87
Strategic Land Use Planning: An Evaluation of Procedural Methodology....Pages 89-106
Systems Analysis in Planning: A Critique of Critiques....Pages 107-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
The Impact of Systems Analysis on Urban Planning: The West German Experience....Pages 125-151
On the Use of Strategic Planning Models in Iberian Cities....Pages 153-167
Systems Analysis in a Developing Country: The Case in Turkey....Pages 169-176
Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning: The Munich Experience....Pages 177-191
French Local Planning Practice....Pages 193-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Early Warning Systems for Urban Policy-Making and Planning....Pages 207-226
Multiregional Population Analysis for Urban and Regional Planning....Pages 227-241
The Sao Paulo Metropolitan Study: A Case Study of the Effectiveness of Urban Systems Analysis....Pages 243-270
Agency Policy Requirements and System Design....Pages 271-290
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
The Failure of Model Use for Policy Analysis in Regional Planning....Pages 293-308
Applications of Corporate Planning in Urban Policy Analysis and Decision-Making....Pages 309-326
Political Realities and the Implementation of Urban Transport Policies....Pages 327-340
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Tyne and Wear and Hong Kong: Can Systems Analysis Tackle the Realities of Decision-Making?....Pages 341-361
Systems Concepts in Government Planning: Experience and Prospects....Pages 363-376
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
Systems Analysis and Urban Policy....Pages 379-389
Reflections on and Implications of Systems Analysis as a Sociological Phenomenon....Pages 391-405
Models, Metaphors and the State of Knowledge....Pages 407-421
On Systems Theory and Analysis in Urban Planning: An Assessment....Pages 423-447
What Reasons for Rationality? In Search of a Future for Rational Methods in Urban Planning....Pages 449-472
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
Positive and Normative Aspects of Modelling Large-Scale Social Systems....Pages 475-490
Planning and Decision-Making in Human Systems: Modelling Self-Organization....Pages 491-524
Technology Considerations in Urban Systems Analysis....Pages 525-544
A Plea for Planning-Oriented Research....Pages 545-564
Front Matter....Pages 565-565
Attitudes Towards Urban Systems Analysis: A Survey of the Participants....Pages 567-581
The Future of Urban Systems Analysis: Issues, Themes and Recommendations of the Institute....Pages 583-600
Back Matter....Pages 601-619

✦ Subjects

Physics, general