Melville Campbell Branch

The Planning Imperative and Human Behavior

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Defining planning as an inherent aspect of human life, Branch presents conclusions reached from 20 previous volumes dealing with different aspects and applications of planning, as well as from actual professional planning experiences. He shows how planning has been a directive force during human evolution and an intrinsic element in human reactions, actions, and activities. Focusing on the existing situation in the United States, he examines the major difficulties confronting the country with respect to planning: problems of communication, poor legislative performance, educational deficiencies, and cultural materialism. Branch presents the fullest explanation available in the literature today of planning and its place in society, and he concludes with an examination of the potentialities and limitations of existing planning in America and its relation to human behavior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780275965341
• ISBN-10: 0275965341
• Artikelnr.: 21595606

Autorenporträt

MELVILLE C. BRANCH is Distinguished Professor of Planning Emeritus at the University of Southern California. He received the National Distinguished Leadership Award of the American Planning Association, and the Distinguished Planning Educator Award of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Planning Imperatives and Attitudes Existing Situation, Human
Behavior, and Planning Legacies of Long Ago Progress of Civilization
Situation at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Primary Problems and
Dangers The Age of Science and Technology Human Behavior Potentialities of
Planning References Index