Procedural planning theory: The synthetic necessity
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https://doi.org/10.38140/trp.v23i0.3105Keywords:
planning procedures, procedural planning theory, procedural theory, substantive theoryAbstract
Procedural planning theory has, over a period of many years, been subjected to criticism on various grounds. The current critique is based on the perception that the procedural model is divorced from context -that it is a theoretical construct separated from socio-political reality. The tendency to separate the procedural from the substantive fields of planning theory has been reinforced by a fairly broad body of work concerned with the classification of planning theory. While the classification typologies have value in the comparative analysis they provide of the attributes of various theoretical approaches, they have tended to negate or neglect the significance of the connectivity between theories. The view presented in this paper is that procedural and substantive connections are essential to planning-in-practice and that if procedural theory fails to accommodate these linkages, it should be recast in non-theoretical methodological form. The elements of planning theory can then be freely connected or synthesized, transferred to the methodology of planning and incorporated in the practice of planning.
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