Planning Style and Agency Properties

Bibliographic Data

ID4138760
AuthorsTore Sager (0000-0001-5781-621X, Department of Transport Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume33
Issue3
Pages509-532
Publication date2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a33170
OpenAlexW1990709822
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited46

It is assumed here that planning style and the organisational properties of the agency are loosely coupled. A number of such properties are discussed in order to construct four agency profiles corresponding to the values and basic ideas of synoptic, incremental, communicative, and advocacy planning. The four identified configurations of style and structure can (1) be theoretical reference points when analysing constellations of planning style and agency characteristics found in practice, and (2) be used for forming hypotheses about such empirical constellations. The analysis responds to the critique raised against procedural planning theories for being abstract and context free and thus unfit to guide planning in real societies where public planning is embedded in particular organisations and institutions. Most of the organisational features dealt with here have been studied in the economic theory of organisation, and this facilitates the construction of consistent and coherent agency profiles

Business · Constellation · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Knowledge management · Management science · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Computer Science · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Policy and Administration Research · Urban Planning and Governance

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub