What planners do
Subtitle: power, politics, and persuasion
By: Charles Hoch.
Contributors: American Planning Association.
Publisher: Planners Press; American Planning Association
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: City planning -- United States.; City planners -- United States.; City planning -- United States -- Decision making.
Description: What do planners do? "Address issues of power, politics, and persuasion in their efforts...to pursue the public good," writes the author in the first chapter of this powerful work.

Hoch first interviewed 29 practicing planners. Then he observed each one of them at work, interacting with staff, citizens, or public officials. In What Planners Do, he tells their stories. He exposes the tension between the authority of the professional planner and the politics of the public good by taking you inside the "real world" of planning practice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-353) and index.