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Systems Approaches to Planning: From Control, Self-Organisation and Power to Normal Accidents

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  • Nicholas A. Phelps

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I distinguish four systems approaches to urban planning with analytical foci on control, self-organization, power and normal accidents. I elaborate on the last of these approaches, noting its salience to a world in which statutory urban planning continues to expand but also to disappoint in its outcomes. This organizational systems approach speaks to normative questions of: whether urban planning could or should be reduced to project management; how smart smart city-related interests in complexity will be in practice; the limits of muddling through; and the contribution of intermediation and discretion to urban planning’s normal accidents.

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  • Nicholas A. Phelps, 2024. "Systems Approaches to Planning: From Control, Self-Organisation and Power to Normal Accidents," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(3), pages 371-388, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:25:y:2024:i:3:p:371-388
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2024.2396351
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