Making Planning More Responsive to its Users: The Concept of Metaplanning

J S de Bettencourt, M B Mandell, S E Polzin, V L Sauter and J L Schofer
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J S de Bettencourt: School of Urban Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, III. 60680, USA
M B Mandell: Graduate Program in Development Planning, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
S E Polzin: Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, USA
V L Sauter: School of Business Administration, University of Missouri at St Louis, St Louis, Mo. 63121, USA
J L Schofer: The Transportation Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, III. 60201, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1982, vol. 14, issue 3, 311-322

Abstract: Increasing the ability of planning to foster desired, real world events requires planners to consider explicitly the broad range of possible uses and users of their products and to adapt these products and the associated planning process to meet the needs of different users more directly. Metaplanning, a structured process for constructing both responsive as well as ethically sound approaches to planning, is described as an approach for accomplishing this. It is an ongoing activity which can be integrated into the planning function to increase its usefulness and viability. This notion is explored, a strategy for metaplanning is presented, and some of its implications are explored.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1068/a140311

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