Reading Old Plans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12178131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seymour J Mandelbaum (California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 189-198 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Policy History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0898-0306 • E-ISSN: 1528-4190 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0898030600006655 |
| OpenAlex | W2327152294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
My initial decision to explicate how I read formal planning texts was provoked by the 1988 publication of a scheme for the CBD of Philadelphia and the adjacent residential neighborhoods. I thought initially that I might be able to help people directly read The Plan for Center City . Ultimately, however, I settled on a more modest goal: encouraging a conversation among planners about both reading and writing plans. My contribution to that conversation, an essay entitled “Reading Plans,” started with the notion that a plan, like any other text, creates images of an “ideal” and a “real” author and reader. I went on to explore the ways in which I located myself within and against those images. Once I'd fixed my location, I suggested, I read the core of a plan—whether it was a budget, a simple plat of streets and lots, a formal set of legal rules controlling land use, or an elaborately argued hybrid like The Plan for Center City —in three complementary ways: as a complex set of policy arguments, as an elaboration of a decision opportunity, and as a story
Conversation · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Plan (archaeology · Political science · Public relations · Reading (process · Set (abstract data type · Simple (philosophy · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · History · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |