Lewis D Hopkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 6103546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis D Hopkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hopkins |
| SIGNATURE | HOPKINS L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
PaRIT
Actors in urban development use and respond to many plans made by organizations, both public and private, at different times with different purposes and scopes. Coping with such networks of information and constraints presents an opportunity to advance development of planning support systems (PSS). The Plans and Regulations Information Tool (PaRIT) is a computing interface that enables spatial queries to identify and access plans and regulations.…
Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans
"Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans: From Theory to Practice." Journal of the American Planning Association, 88(4), pp. 592–593
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1991
Autonomous planning
Research about plans and resulting guidance for practice tend to focus on making one plan and implementing it. Plans are made and used, however, by many autonomous agents, a variety of organizations pursuing their interests while recognizing interdependence with the activities of other agents. Expanding the focus beyond one plan by one organization to many plans by many organizations raises three questions. With what agents should I make plans? H…
Acting under the influence
Actors in complex urban environments cope with uncertainties and interdependencies by using each other’s plans, subscribing to pre-existing decision-making frameworks, and building relationships with other actors over long periods of time. Improvisational comedians employ similar strategies to create coherent and meaningful multi-actor stories without a script or director; in short, they use “gifts,” “games,” and “group mind” to cope with uncerta…
Disaster and Recovery
The study of postdisaster recovery is in its infancy, and there is as yet no body of theory to guide researchers (Alesch 2005; Smith and Wenger 2007; Olshansky and Chang 2009). Few researchers have conducted in-depth research of recovery processes following more than one disaster (e.g., Haas et al. 1977; Rubin 1985; Comerio 1998; Phillips 2009; Alesch et al. 2009; Olshansky et al. 2006; Olshansky and Johnson 2010), which has further impeded the d…
In What Circumstances Should Plans Be Public
Characterizing plans as means of interaction and influence among organizations rather than as mechanisms of control over a complex multiorganizational environment frames the question: In what circumstances should plans be shared widely? Organizations have persistent and repeated interactions about many issues, have fractured capabilities and authorities, and make multiple, overlapping, and interacting plans. Some of these plans are public and som…
Introduction to Symposium
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Distinguished Planning Educator Award
Coherentist Theories of Planning are Possible and Useful
Mandelbaum argued against the possibility of a complete general theory of planning set out along the lines of a generalist, a priori, covering-law model. In this article we draw on Miller and Hurley to elaborate a coherentist approach to planning theories that achieves some of the aspirations Mandelbaum sought for a general theory. We argue that this perspective is more inclusive, vis-à-vis what can count as theory for planning, and widens the ci…
Reflections on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of JPER
Who owns America? Social conflict over property rights
Planning as Science
Planning scholarship will benefit from research conversations focused on cumulative knowledge about how planning works and how urban settlements work. Our everyday decisions present opportunities. (1) Initiate and sustain conversations through conferences. (2) Referee papers to encourage cumulative scholarship. (3) Cultivate funding sources. (4) Establish awards that recognize contributions to conversations. (5) Hire faculty with scholarly conver…
Do Plans Matter
Using data on vacant land sales in Washington County, Oregon, the authors find that plans for light rail investments have positive effects on land values in proposed station areas. These findings suggest that such capitalization is likely to discourage the development of low-density housing in station areas and encourage high-density, transportation-oriented development. More important, the results provide support for a model in which planning is…
Managing Urban Growth with Urban Growth Boundaries
Do Plans Matter? A Game-Theoretic Model for Examining the Logic and Effects of Land Use Planning
Although state and local growth management programs vary widely, nearly all such programs include one common feature: they require local governments to plan. While there has been extensive research on the effects of growth management in general and on specific policy instruments to manage urban growth there has been little research on the effects of planning. In this paper we present a game-theoretic model of urban development in which a rational…
Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Article in Volume 14
Procedural Expertise for Efficient Multiattribute Evaluation
Previously developed decision support systems for multiattribute evaluation focus on support of computation and representation, but provide no guidance for efficient use of methods for particular decision problems and environments. We examine a procedural support strategy to guide the decision maker in efficiently choosing what judgments to consider in the computation of equivalent alternatives (CEA) method. A Monte-Carlo simulation measures the …
Behavior of Land Developers
Previous attempts to describe or model planning behavior have failed to focus on a decision variable for the activity of planning itself. Attempts to use economic theory to explain planning by modeling only the phenomena being planned for have not been useful in explaining or understanding planning behavior. The model developed in this paper for land development planning makes explicit the decision to plan at each stage of the development process…
Theory of Elephants
Britton Harris
Watershed Land-Use Planning under Uncertainty
A model of watershed land-use planning is formulated that improves on existing models by recognizing that land-use decisions have uncertain outcomes and that land uses change over time. Implications of recognizing the distinction between land-use decisions and their uncertain outcomes are discussed. The land-use changes are modelled using a Markov process. Because of the computational difficulties in determining the return associated with the com…
Land suitability analysis
(1979). Land suitability analysis : methods and interpretation. Landscape Research: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 8-9
Quadratic versus Linear Models for Land-Use Plan Design
Quadratic assignment models and linear-programming models have been proposed for land-use plan design. The models represent transportation and divisibility of production differently and have solution algorithms with very different properties, but the most important distinction is that quadratic assignment models can handle externalities whereas linear models without integer side conditions cannot. Therefore quadratic models are useful for plan-ma…
Land-Use Plan Design-Quadratic Assignment and Central-Facility Models
Models for designing suburban land-use plans are evaluated with respect to the same large well-defined test problem. This evaluation-including quality of solutions obtained, cost of search, validity of representation, and generality-indicates that central-facility models are likely to be more useful than quadratic assignment models for the design of suburban land-use plans at the scale considered. These results emphasize the importance of the eva…
Do Plans Matter
Using data on vacant land sales in Washington County, Oregon, the authors find that plans for light rail investments have positive effects on land values in proposed station areas. These findings suggest that such capitalization is likely to discourage the development of low-density housing in station areas and encourage high-density, transportation-oriented development. More important, the results provide support for a model in which planning is…
Planning as Science
Planning scholarship will benefit from research conversations focused on cumulative knowledge about how planning works and how urban settlements work. Our everyday decisions present opportunities. (1) Initiate and sustain conversations through conferences. (2) Referee papers to encourage cumulative scholarship. (3) Cultivate funding sources. (4) Establish awards that recognize contributions to conversations. (5) Hire faculty with scholarly conver…
Autonomous planning
Research about plans and resulting guidance for practice tend to focus on making one plan and implementing it. Plans are made and used, however, by many autonomous agents, a variety of organizations pursuing their interests while recognizing interdependence with the activities of other agents. Expanding the focus beyond one plan by one organization to many plans by many organizations raises three questions. With what agents should I make plans? H…
Do Plans Matter? A Game-Theoretic Model for Examining the Logic and Effects of Land Use Planning
Although state and local growth management programs vary widely, nearly all such programs include one common feature: they require local governments to plan. While there has been extensive research on the effects of growth management in general and on specific policy instruments to manage urban growth there has been little research on the effects of planning. In this paper we present a game-theoretic model of urban development in which a rational…
Managing Urban Growth with Urban Growth Boundaries
In What Circumstances Should Plans Be Public
Characterizing plans as means of interaction and influence among organizations rather than as mechanisms of control over a complex multiorganizational environment frames the question: In what circumstances should plans be shared widely? Organizations have persistent and repeated interactions about many issues, have fractured capabilities and authorities, and make multiple, overlapping, and interacting plans. Some of these plans are public and som…
Coherentist Theories of Planning are Possible and Useful
Mandelbaum argued against the possibility of a complete general theory of planning set out along the lines of a generalist, a priori, covering-law model. In this article we draw on Miller and Hurley to elaborate a coherentist approach to planning theories that achieves some of the aspirations Mandelbaum sought for a general theory. We argue that this perspective is more inclusive, vis-à-vis what can count as theory for planning, and widens the ci…
Acting under the influence
Actors in complex urban environments cope with uncertainties and interdependencies by using each other’s plans, subscribing to pre-existing decision-making frameworks, and building relationships with other actors over long periods of time. Improvisational comedians employ similar strategies to create coherent and meaningful multi-actor stories without a script or director; in short, they use “gifts,” “games,” and “group mind” to cope with uncerta…
Land-Use Plan Design-Quadratic Assignment and Central-Facility Models
Models for designing suburban land-use plans are evaluated with respect to the same large well-defined test problem. This evaluation-including quality of solutions obtained, cost of search, validity of representation, and generality-indicates that central-facility models are likely to be more useful than quadratic assignment models for the design of suburban land-use plans at the scale considered. These results emphasize the importance of the eva…
Procedural Expertise for Efficient Multiattribute Evaluation
Previously developed decision support systems for multiattribute evaluation focus on support of computation and representation, but provide no guidance for efficient use of methods for particular decision problems and environments. We examine a procedural support strategy to guide the decision maker in efficiently choosing what judgments to consider in the computation of equivalent alternatives (CEA) method. A Monte-Carlo simulation measures the …
Plan, Projection, Policy-Mathematical Programming and Planning Theory
The purpose of planning models is to help determine how best to change the controllable variables of a system so that the system will move toward desired goals. In the case of public planning, the welfare criterion or planning objective is not likely to be the same as the objective function driving the behavior of the individual elements of the system. A rigorous definition of a theory of planning is provided through extensions to the linear-prog…
Theory of Elephants
Introduction to Symposium
Behavior of Land Developers
Previous attempts to describe or model planning behavior have failed to focus on a decision variable for the activity of planning itself. Attempts to use economic theory to explain planning by modeling only the phenomena being planned for have not been useful in explaining or understanding planning behavior. The model developed in this paper for land development planning makes explicit the decision to plan at each stage of the development process…
Plan, Projection, Policy-Mathematical Programming and Planning Theory
The purpose of planning models is to help determine how best to change the controllable variables of a system so that the system will move toward desired goals. In the case of public planning, the welfare criterion or planning objective is not likely to be the same as the objective function driving the behavior of the individual elements of the system. A rigorous definition of a theory of planning is provided through extensions to the linear-prog…
Land-Use Plan Design-Quadratic Assignment and Central-Facility Models
Models for designing suburban land-use plans are evaluated with respect to the same large well-defined test problem. This evaluation-including quality of solutions obtained, cost of search, validity of representation, and generality-indicates that central-facility models are likely to be more useful than quadratic assignment models for the design of suburban land-use plans at the scale considered. These results emphasize the importance of the eva…
Land suitability analysis
(1979). Land suitability analysis : methods and interpretation. Landscape Research: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 8-9
Quadratic versus Linear Models for Land-Use Plan Design
Quadratic assignment models and linear-programming models have been proposed for land-use plan design. The models represent transportation and divisibility of production differently and have solution algorithms with very different properties, but the most important distinction is that quadratic assignment models can handle externalities whereas linear models without integer side conditions cannot. Therefore quadratic models are useful for plan-ma…
Watershed Land-Use Planning under Uncertainty
A model of watershed land-use planning is formulated that improves on existing models by recognizing that land-use decisions have uncertain outcomes and that land uses change over time. Implications of recognizing the distinction between land-use decisions and their uncertain outcomes are discussed. The land-use changes are modelled using a Markov process. Because of the computational difficulties in determining the return associated with the com…
Theory of Elephants
Britton Harris
Behavior of Land Developers
Previous attempts to describe or model planning behavior have failed to focus on a decision variable for the activity of planning itself. Attempts to use economic theory to explain planning by modeling only the phenomena being planned for have not been useful in explaining or understanding planning behavior. The model developed in this paper for land development planning makes explicit the decision to plan at each stage of the development process…
Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Article in Volume 14
Procedural Expertise for Efficient Multiattribute Evaluation
Previously developed decision support systems for multiattribute evaluation focus on support of computation and representation, but provide no guidance for efficient use of methods for particular decision problems and environments. We examine a procedural support strategy to guide the decision maker in efficiently choosing what judgments to consider in the computation of equivalent alternatives (CEA) method. A Monte-Carlo simulation measures the …
Do Plans Matter? A Game-Theoretic Model for Examining the Logic and Effects of Land Use Planning
Although state and local growth management programs vary widely, nearly all such programs include one common feature: they require local governments to plan. While there has been extensive research on the effects of growth management in general and on specific policy instruments to manage urban growth there has been little research on the effects of planning. In this paper we present a game-theoretic model of urban development in which a rational…
Managing Urban Growth with Urban Growth Boundaries
Planning as Science
Planning scholarship will benefit from research conversations focused on cumulative knowledge about how planning works and how urban settlements work. Our everyday decisions present opportunities. (1) Initiate and sustain conversations through conferences. (2) Referee papers to encourage cumulative scholarship. (3) Cultivate funding sources. (4) Establish awards that recognize contributions to conversations. (5) Hire faculty with scholarly conver…
Do Plans Matter
Using data on vacant land sales in Washington County, Oregon, the authors find that plans for light rail investments have positive effects on land values in proposed station areas. These findings suggest that such capitalization is likely to discourage the development of low-density housing in station areas and encourage high-density, transportation-oriented development. More important, the results provide support for a model in which planning is…
Who owns America? Social conflict over property rights
Reflections on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of JPER
Coherentist Theories of Planning are Possible and Useful
Mandelbaum argued against the possibility of a complete general theory of planning set out along the lines of a generalist, a priori, covering-law model. In this article we draw on Miller and Hurley to elaborate a coherentist approach to planning theories that achieves some of the aspirations Mandelbaum sought for a general theory. We argue that this perspective is more inclusive, vis-à-vis what can count as theory for planning, and widens the ci…
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Distinguished Planning Educator Award
In What Circumstances Should Plans Be Public
Characterizing plans as means of interaction and influence among organizations rather than as mechanisms of control over a complex multiorganizational environment frames the question: In what circumstances should plans be shared widely? Organizations have persistent and repeated interactions about many issues, have fractured capabilities and authorities, and make multiple, overlapping, and interacting plans. Some of these plans are public and som…
Introduction to Symposium
Disaster and Recovery
The study of postdisaster recovery is in its infancy, and there is as yet no body of theory to guide researchers (Alesch 2005; Smith and Wenger 2007; Olshansky and Chang 2009). Few researchers have conducted in-depth research of recovery processes following more than one disaster (e.g., Haas et al. 1977; Rubin 1985; Comerio 1998; Phillips 2009; Alesch et al. 2009; Olshansky et al. 2006; Olshansky and Johnson 2010), which has further impeded the d…
Autonomous planning
Research about plans and resulting guidance for practice tend to focus on making one plan and implementing it. Plans are made and used, however, by many autonomous agents, a variety of organizations pursuing their interests while recognizing interdependence with the activities of other agents. Expanding the focus beyond one plan by one organization to many plans by many organizations raises three questions. With what agents should I make plans? H…
Acting under the influence
Actors in complex urban environments cope with uncertainties and interdependencies by using each other’s plans, subscribing to pre-existing decision-making frameworks, and building relationships with other actors over long periods of time. Improvisational comedians employ similar strategies to create coherent and meaningful multi-actor stories without a script or director; in short, they use “gifts,” “games,” and “group mind” to cope with uncerta…
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1991
Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans
"Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans: From Theory to Practice." Journal of the American Planning Association, 88(4), pp. 592–593
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