Societal Planning: Identifying a New Role for the Transport Planner--Part I.
ABSTRACT It has been amply demonstrated over the last three decades that public planning is subject to rapid change and great uncertainties, both in dealing with political objectives as well as in dealing with new technologies. The Rational Planning Model (RPM), which is still the mainstay of the pl...
| Publicado en: | Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 17 - 26 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar97
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