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Delusions and Diffusions of City Planning in the United States

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  • Melville C. Branch

    (University of Southern California)

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A number of concepts and conditions in current city planning are questioned: the grand master plan delusion; planning after the fact; intermittent master planning; the illusion of complete study; avoiding the critical problems; trying to do everything; sematic confusion; conflicts of role and organization; unrealistic derivation of goals and objectives; failure of city planning in the general public interest; deficiencies of planning personnel; inadequacies of theory and research; underestimating fundamental difficulties of the city planning endeavor.

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  • Melville C. Branch, 1970. "Delusions and Diffusions of City Planning in the United States," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 16(12), pages 714-732, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:16:y:1970:i:12:p:b714-b732
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.16.12.B714
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