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- Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
- Instructor(s)
- Sakano Tatsurou
- Class Format
- Lecture
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- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Thr3-4(W9-402,403)
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- Course number
- UDE.D409
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2018
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2018/9/18
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- 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 | Modernization and the planned society | Understand the impacts of modernization on the structure of families, communities and cities, and explain socio-historical background of modernistic planning |
| Class 3 | Social Constructionism and Advocacy Planning | Understand advocacy planning based on sociology of knowledge and explain the influence of power on perception of reality |
| Class 4 | Limited Rationality and Incremental Planning | Understand incrementalism as heuristics to cope with uncertainty and explain distributed order creation mechanisms |
| Class 5 | Discursive Rationality and Public Sphere | Read the texts written by J.Habermas and explain deliberative rationality, life world, and public sphere |
| Class 6 | Collective Action Dilemma and Civil Society | Understand collective action dilemma and explain the role of civic virtues to solve environmental problems |
| Class 7 | 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 |
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
