Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Theory of
Evolution in
(Biologist, sociologist, geographer and Town Planner)
Cities
Presented by:
Bhanu Pratap Singh (11/PUR/002)
Subodh Dobhal (11/PUR/003)
(Masters in Urban & Regional Planning)
Gautam Buddha University
(Gr. Noida) India
Domain of planning theory
• Deals with ideas and arguments related to the conduct of
planning
• Aims to provide some overall or general understanding of
the nature of planning
– What sort of activity is planning?
– What should it aim to do?
– What are its effects on social life?
– What are its effects on urban morphology and function?
– What are the components of good quality urban environments?
– Under what conditions are these qualities most likely to be
realised?
– What part can planning play in creating better/liveable cities?
Baseline - modernism
form
purpose
design
hierarchy
mastery/the word/logos
totalization/synthesis
centring
meta/grand narratives
determinacy
transcendence
metaphysics
Utopian comprehensiveness
change)
Evaluate alternatives
• Rational planning was
procedural planning
(processes of going Implement plan/policy
about planning)
• Both indebted to Monitor effects
scientific method (after
Karl Popper)
Rational systems