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PLANNING THEORY AND METHODS……835-452/652 |
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Spring 2001
Laurel Phoenix
Office: MAC A324
Phone: 465-2402
Email: phoenixl@uwgb.edu
Office Hours: MWF 11-12
TTh 11-12
or by appt.
Required Reading: No text for this class
Class handouts or reserve readings at Cofrin Library
Course Description:
Planning for public and not-for-profit agencies: theory and practical significance of planning; the political and administrative setting of planning operations; and methods of planning analysis such as strategic planning. From project-specific planning to regional comprehensive planning and from private to public venues, theory and related applications are covered using a variety of examples from personal life, organizations, and public administration/planning.
Students will be given weekly reading assignments and are expected to participate in discussions regarding the readings and their application to that day’s lecture/task/case study. Critical thinking is required to analyze the information presented and determine which planning models and approaches work best for different situations, and what are the limits of each.
Projects 1 and 2 differ in that Project 1 focuses on private interests
(organizational), and Project 2 develops more of the complexity and social/political
interests and values found in urban/regional planning. No artistic
talent is required to complete these projects, although a few sketches
of network diagrams or locales under consideration are necessary.
Brief class presentations of projects are scheduled.
Week of: Topic
Jan 15 Course
Intro.
Types of planning
Elements of planning
Planning models and approaches
Purpose of planning - Rationality, Rousseau and Hobbes, the Public Interest
Semester plan for this course
Jan 22 Intro.
to Planning Approaches
Art and Science of Planning
Planning approaches- pros and cons
Stakeholders and power structures
Collaboration and Cooptation
When values determine planning goals
Planning approach selection
Evaluating a planning situation
Jan 29 Intro.
to Planning Models, Deterministic Plans
Systems Theory
Probability
Introducing planning models
Defining deterministic situations
Feb 5 Deterministic
Models
Network planning
Goals, Criteria, Constraints
Critical Path – History and Use
Selecting alternatives
Sample deterministic plans
Feb 12 Deterministic
Models
More deterministic models and case studies
Feb 19 Stochastic Plans
Concepts of stochastic planning
Defining stochastic situations
Uncertainty
Mapping out decisions
Strategies and contingency plans
Linking policies to strategies
Feb 26 Catch-up and Midterm on Thurs., March 1
Mar 5 Project 1 Presentations
Mar 19 Stochastic Plans
Causal Models
Decision strategies and decision rules under uncertainty
Game theory and payoffs
Coping with complexity
Mar 26 Stochastic Plans
and Models
Objectives
Operationalizing goals and evaluative measures
Criteria for decision-making
Interventions
Apr 2 Stochastic
Models
Regression
PERT (Project Evaluation and Review Technique)
Queues
..and more
Apr 9 Heuristic
Models
Defining heuristic situations
Goals and strategies for planning without sufficient information
Making heuristic plans
Apr 16 Historical Influences
on American Planning Theory
Contributing fields, and key authors and their philosophies
Apr 24 Catch-up
Apr 26 - May 1 Project 2 Presentations
May 3 Graduate Project Presentations - Heuristic
Apr 30 Planning
Context
Variation and distribution of:
Power
Politics
Social goals
Methods of public participation
Defending core values – “public interest” vs. “bounded rationality”
Consideration of context and capability
Elements of adaption to dynamic systems
May 15 FINALS WEEK – Final - Tues, May 15th, 1:00 – 3:00
Grade breakdown:
Undergrads
Grads
Participation in discussions/activities 15%
Participation
10%
Plan 1
20% Plan
1
15%
Plan 2
25% Plan
2
20%
Midterm
20% Plan
3 (heuristic)
20%
Final
20% Midterm
15%
100 Final
20%
100
PLANNING WEB SITES
Local government sites:
http://www.planning.haynet.com/
Links to articles
http://www.planning.org/
American Planning Association
http://www.arch.buffalo.edu/pairc/
Articles and Search
http://www.plannersweb.com/
City and Regional Planning Resources
http://www.sierraclub.org/
Sprawl Reports
http://www2.dcci.com/Frontporch/
Urban Planning. Provides articles and links
http://www.smartgrowth.org/
Smart Growth
http://www.1000friendsofwisconsin.com/
1000 Friends of Wisc.— State level planning group
Federal government sites:
http://www.hud.gov/cpd/cpdhome.html
Community Planning and Development
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/index.htm
Fed. Highway Admin. Planning
http://www.abag.ca.gov/home2.html
Regional Planning
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/documents.center/goveweb.html
Search Gov’t and Links
http://www.doc.gov/
Dept. of Commerce /Office of Policy and Strategic Planning
Private sites:
http://www.medsp.com/
Medical Strategic Planning
http://www.whipplesargent.com/
Strategic Planning Consultants
http://www.balthazar.com/
Balthazar Consulting
BOOKS ON PLANNING
Sexton, Ken, et al., eds. 1999. Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Governments, Businesses, and Communities. Washington D.C.: Island Press.
Lewis, Philip H., Jr. 1996. Tomorrow by Design: A Regional Design Process for Sustainability. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Sargent, Frederic O., et al. 1991. Rural Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Dunne, Thomas and Luna B. Leopold. 1978. Water in Environmental Planning. New York: W.H. Freeman.
Daniels, Tom. 1999. When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Burby, Raymond J. and Peter J. May. 1997. Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
Kelly, Eric Damian and Barbara Becker. 2000. Community Planning: An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
So, Frank S., et al, eds. 1986. The Practice of State and Regional Planning. Chicago: American Planning Association.
Bryson, John M. and Farnum K. Alston. 1996. Creating
and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit
Organizations.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
DeKluyver, Cornelis A. 2000. Strategic Thinking: An Executive Perspective. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
Mische, Michael A. 2001. Strategic Renewal: Becoming
a High-Performance Organization. Upper Saddle River: Prentice
Hall.
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