Planning behavior
Subtitle: theories and experiments
By: by Shih-Kung Lai
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781527538924
Subjects: City planning; Planning; Decision making; Decision Making; Planification; Prise de décision
Description: While ordinary people tend to make myopic, independent decisions, planners deal with linked decisions intentionally and act accordingly in space and time. Little has been said, however, about how these linked decisions should be made. This collection of essays extends the concepts derived from decision theory in order to explain planning phenomena, particularly planning behavior. The book contains work gathered over a period thirty years that covers micro-decision making and macro-plan making processes in the context of urban planning. It answers the questions of why urban containment policies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Differential effects of outcome and probability on risky decisions in gains and losses; title: Frame and contingent utility for risky choices; title: Land development decisions and lottery dependent utility; title: Isolation effect as a source of myopic planning for urban development; title: Comparison of regimes of policies of urban development; title: Effects of urban containment policy on land development decisions; title: Towards a solution to the voting dilemma; title: Information structure exploration as planning for a unitary organization; title: An anatomy of time explicit planning behavior for urban complexity; title: Towards a behavioral planning theory; title: Why plans matter for cities; title: Managing urban complexity through decision coordination