John Abbott
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5407482 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Abbott |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Abbott |
| ASSINATURA | ABBOTT J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Planning as Managing Uncertainty
The concepts of planning and uncertainty are closely linked. The purpose of this research was to examine and learn from practice by applying the concept of planning as managing uncertainty to the making of a metropolitan plan for Greater Vancouver, Canada. The Livable Region Strategic Plan was prepared between 1989 and 1996. The story of this plan-making process is a dynamic interplay of expected and desired outcomes, actions and proposed actions…
Planning for Complex Metropolitan Regions
Issues, organizations and plans interact in complex ways in metropolitan regions. Planning seeks to influence this interaction to produce a better future: But there are tensions between seeking a better future and a more certain one. The concept of planning as managing uncertainties is used to explore these tensions in two examples: the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and the SEQ 2001 Project in Australia. The article explores how uncertainties, t…
Understanding and Managing the Unknown
Individuals, organizations, and urban regions face a complex and uncertain future. Planning is about changing the future and therefore must try to understand what is known and unknown about the future. Planning involves understanding and managing uncertainty—focusing on what is unknown as well as what is known. Uncertainty arises from the environment or planning context— environmental uncertainty—but also from the planning process itself— process…
Land-use changes in comparative perspective
The use of GIS in informal settlement upgrading
An analysis of informal settlement upgrading and critique of existing methodological approaches
A method-based planning framework for informal settlement upgrading
Approaches to urban infrastructure provision
The period of political transition in South Africa, from 1990 to 1994, was a time of experimentation in urban upgrading. Community participation in planning and management was central to this process, and a number of different approaches to urban infrastructure provision were explored, in an attempt to maximise this participation. The paper describes some of the experiences and the lessons which were learnt. The results of the study indicate that…
The decline of the urban management system in South Africa
The paper considers the reasons for the decline in urban management in South Africa, especially the failure of the self-contained, self-financing black local authorities established in 1980 to manage urban development in the former African townships. It includes a short history of how the white and black local authorities developed under apartheid. It also sagests that some of the weaknesses of the urban managenent structure under apartheid are s…
Schools in the West
Varieties, Verities and Paradoxes in the History of Education
Ronald D. Cohen and Raymond A. Mohl. The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1979. 216 + viii pp. Barbara Finkelstein, ed. Regulated Children/ Liberated Children: Education in Psychohistorical Perspective. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1979. 225 pp. Vincent P. Franklin. The Education of Black Phila- delphia: The Social and Educational History of a Minority Community, 1900-19…
Understanding and Managing the Unknown
Individuals, organizations, and urban regions face a complex and uncertain future. Planning is about changing the future and therefore must try to understand what is known and unknown about the future. Planning involves understanding and managing uncertainty—focusing on what is unknown as well as what is known. Uncertainty arises from the environment or planning context— environmental uncertainty—but also from the planning process itself— process…
An analysis of informal settlement upgrading and critique of existing methodological approaches
A method-based planning framework for informal settlement upgrading
The use of GIS in informal settlement upgrading
Planning for Complex Metropolitan Regions
Issues, organizations and plans interact in complex ways in metropolitan regions. Planning seeks to influence this interaction to produce a better future: But there are tensions between seeking a better future and a more certain one. The concept of planning as managing uncertainties is used to explore these tensions in two examples: the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and the SEQ 2001 Project in Australia. The article explores how uncertainties, t…
Schools in the West
Approaches to urban infrastructure provision
The period of political transition in South Africa, from 1990 to 1994, was a time of experimentation in urban upgrading. Community participation in planning and management was central to this process, and a number of different approaches to urban infrastructure provision were explored, in an attempt to maximise this participation. The paper describes some of the experiences and the lessons which were learnt. The results of the study indicate that…
Varieties, Verities and Paradoxes in the History of Education
Ronald D. Cohen and Raymond A. Mohl. The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1979. 216 + viii pp. Barbara Finkelstein, ed. Regulated Children/ Liberated Children: Education in Psychohistorical Perspective. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1979. 225 pp. Vincent P. Franklin. The Education of Black Phila- delphia: The Social and Educational History of a Minority Community, 1900-19…
Schools in the West
The decline of the urban management system in South Africa
The paper considers the reasons for the decline in urban management in South Africa, especially the failure of the self-contained, self-financing black local authorities established in 1980 to manage urban development in the former African townships. It includes a short history of how the white and black local authorities developed under apartheid. It also sagests that some of the weaknesses of the urban managenent structure under apartheid are s…
Approaches to urban infrastructure provision
The period of political transition in South Africa, from 1990 to 1994, was a time of experimentation in urban upgrading. Community participation in planning and management was central to this process, and a number of different approaches to urban infrastructure provision were explored, in an attempt to maximise this participation. The paper describes some of the experiences and the lessons which were learnt. The results of the study indicate that…
An analysis of informal settlement upgrading and critique of existing methodological approaches
A method-based planning framework for informal settlement upgrading
The use of GIS in informal settlement upgrading
Understanding and Managing the Unknown
Individuals, organizations, and urban regions face a complex and uncertain future. Planning is about changing the future and therefore must try to understand what is known and unknown about the future. Planning involves understanding and managing uncertainty—focusing on what is unknown as well as what is known. Uncertainty arises from the environment or planning context— environmental uncertainty—but also from the planning process itself— process…
Land-use changes in comparative perspective
Planning for Complex Metropolitan Regions
Issues, organizations and plans interact in complex ways in metropolitan regions. Planning seeks to influence this interaction to produce a better future: But there are tensions between seeking a better future and a more certain one. The concept of planning as managing uncertainties is used to explore these tensions in two examples: the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and the SEQ 2001 Project in Australia. The article explores how uncertainties, t…
Planning as Managing Uncertainty
The concepts of planning and uncertainty are closely linked. The purpose of this research was to examine and learn from practice by applying the concept of planning as managing uncertainty to the making of a metropolitan plan for Greater Vancouver, Canada. The Livable Region Strategic Plan was prepared between 1989 and 1996. The story of this plan-making process is a dynamic interplay of expected and desired outcomes, actions and proposed actions…
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