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2017　Planning Theory

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Academic unit or major
Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
Instructor(s)
Sakano Tatsurou 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Thr3-4(W9-402,403)  
Group
-
Course number
UDE.D409
Credits
1
Academic year
2017
Offered quarter
3Q
Syllabus updated
2017/9/26
Lecture notes updated
-
Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

In this course students are required to read the original texts written by representative planning theorists and planners from 19th century, the formative years of professionalization and institutionalization of planning, to the present. Different from substantive theories in the field of planning such as land use and transportation planning, planning theory is a meta-theory common to all of the collaborative activities called planning. Planning plays an important role both in private and public domains. In this course the one in public domain is in focus.The aim of this course is to acquire sense and insight to understand planning in a historical perspective with the proper knowledge of public philosophy and history of thoughts.

Student learning outcomes

The goals of this course are as following: 1) to learn philosophical thoughts on public interests and rationality and their influence on planning thoughts, in particular the relationship between professionalized-institutionalized planning and modernistic concept of rationality, i.e. instrumentalism and objectivism, 2) to understand critique about modernistic rationality and alternative planning styles, and 3) to understand arguments on the legitimacy and efficiency between planned intervention and market, and how these arguments relates to the new issues such as deliberative democracy and voluntary civil society, and 4) finally, to acquire capability to evaluate existing planning practice and redesign planning institution and process.

Keywords

planning theory, public interest, rationality, deliberative democracy, participation, public sphere, civil society

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills Intercultural skills Communication skills ✔ Critical thinking skills ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

It is required to read the texts assigned before the class. The instructor introduces the ideas behind the texts and class discussion will follow.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 The thoughts on public interest and rationality and their relation to planning thoughts Understand political thoughts on rationality and public interests and explain their relation to modernistic planning
Class 2 The social construction of urban problems: from images of families, communities and cities in 19th century Understand the impacts of modernization on the structure of families, communities and cities, and explain socio-historical background of modernistic planning
Class 3 Progressivism and Utopian imagination Understand progressivism and positivism and explain their impact on Utopian planning
Class 4 TVA and institutionalization of planned intervention Understand the history of TVA development planning and explain relationship of institutionalization of planned activities and the birth of welfare state
Class 5 Rational choice model and Taylorism Understand Taylorism as rational choice design process and　explain the impacts of Taylorism on our society
Class 6 Reconstruction of modernistic rationality and informal urban oder Read the original texts written by R.Sennetｔ and H.Gans and explain the influence of the modernistic image of order on urban planning
Class 7 Advocacy and knowledge sociology Understand advocacy planning based on sociology of knowledge and explain the influence of power on perception of reality
Class 8 Incrementalism and limited rationality Understand incrementalism as a heuristics to cope with uncertainty and explain distributed order creation mechanisms
Class 9 Planning and socialistic calculation Understand critiques of F. Hayek and von Mises on planned economy and explain mechanisms of distributed order
Class 10 Liberalism v.s. Communitarian debate Understand the differences of Liberalism and Communitarianism on public interests and rationality, and explain their influence on planning thoughts
Class 11 Structural transformation of public sphere and its consequence on urban space Read the texts written by J.Habermas and explain spatial conditions which nurtured civil society
Class 12 Deliberative rationality and public sphere Read the texts written by J.Habermas and explain deliberative rationality, life world, and public sphere
Class 13 Reconsidering public interest fro participative v.s. deliberative democracy Understand the differences of participative and deliberative democracy and apply deliberative principles to design institution and process of problem solving
Class 14 Environmental problem, collective action dilemma, and civic virtues Understand collective action dilemma and explain the role of civic virtues to solve environmental problems
Class 15 Social reconstruction of risk and planning Understand "socially constructed reality" and explain the limit of analytic approach and the importance of deliberative approach in coping with risk problems

Textbook(s)

The reading materials are provided before the class.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Campbell,S. and S.Fainstein, 1996, Readings in Planning Theory, Blackwell Publishers

Assessment criteria and methods

Mini quiz in each class: 40%
Term paper: 60%

Related courses

  • CVE.D312 ： Behavioral Theory of Public Systems
  • UDE.D471 ： Principles of Public Systems Design

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

None

Other

None

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