AICP Exam Prep - Theories of Planning
Practice and Urban Development
Rational Planning - answer Set Goals
Determine Alternatives
Evaluate the Alternatives
Choose an Alternative
Implement the Alternative
Evaluate
"satisfice" - answer developed by Herbert Simon
the principle of bounded rationality, which accepts that the human mind is limited in its
ability to solve problems. We instead choose alternatives that are good enough.
We can never have complete information.
Assumes that a planner has perfect knowledge of all of the factors in a given situation.
A planner is able to evaluate all alternatives and is not constrained by limits of time and
money. - answer Why is pure Rational Planning impossible?
"Administrative man" - answer Herbert Simon argues that the rational "economic
man" should be replaced by this. This satisfice because they do not have the means to
maximize their decisions.
Pure Rationality - answer assumes that a planner has perfect knowledge of all of the
factors in a given situation. A planner is able to evaluate all alternatives and is not
constrained by limits of time and money
those that are complicated and difficult to solve.
Rational planning can only work when the problem can be easily defined and there can
be a best solution. - answer What is a "wicked" problem and why does it not allow
Rational Planning to work?
Incremental Planning - answer Planning theory introduced by Charles Lindblom in
1959 in an article called "The Science of Muddling Through".
He argues that people accomplish goals through a series of successive, limited
comparisons.
Practice and Urban Development
Rational Planning - answer Set Goals
Determine Alternatives
Evaluate the Alternatives
Choose an Alternative
Implement the Alternative
Evaluate
"satisfice" - answer developed by Herbert Simon
the principle of bounded rationality, which accepts that the human mind is limited in its
ability to solve problems. We instead choose alternatives that are good enough.
We can never have complete information.
Assumes that a planner has perfect knowledge of all of the factors in a given situation.
A planner is able to evaluate all alternatives and is not constrained by limits of time and
money. - answer Why is pure Rational Planning impossible?
"Administrative man" - answer Herbert Simon argues that the rational "economic
man" should be replaced by this. This satisfice because they do not have the means to
maximize their decisions.
Pure Rationality - answer assumes that a planner has perfect knowledge of all of the
factors in a given situation. A planner is able to evaluate all alternatives and is not
constrained by limits of time and money
those that are complicated and difficult to solve.
Rational planning can only work when the problem can be easily defined and there can
be a best solution. - answer What is a "wicked" problem and why does it not allow
Rational Planning to work?
Incremental Planning - answer Planning theory introduced by Charles Lindblom in
1959 in an article called "The Science of Muddling Through".
He argues that people accomplish goals through a series of successive, limited
comparisons.
