A Planners’ Planner: John Friedmann’s Quest for a General Theory of Planning
This paper honors the memory of Professor John Friedmann by reflecting on his professional contributions in two ways. First, the paper provides an overview of Friedmann’s career as a planner and planning academic, which spanned six decades and three continents, and highlights how a confluence of...
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| author | Sanyal, Bishwapriya |
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| description | This paper honors the memory of Professor John Friedmann by reflecting on his professional
contributions in two ways. First, the paper provides an overview of Friedmann’s career as a
planner and planning academic, which spanned six decades and three continents, and
highlights how a confluence of factors led to a paradigm shift in his thinking regarding the
role of planning in social transformation. Second, the paper assesses Friedmann’s position
on three issues of importance for practitioners—namely, problem formulation, the role of
technical knowledge, and organizational learning. The paper concludes that the
establishment of UCLA’s planning program is a testament to Friedmann’s critical view of
planning practice, which posed fundamental challenges to conventional thinking. His
publications were more inspirational than pragmatic, but they will continue to influence
planning deliberations, as normative ideas underpin most planning efforts. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1241502022-09-28T12:42:29Z A Planners’ Planner: John Friedmann’s Quest for a General Theory of Planning Sanyal, Bishwapriya Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning This paper honors the memory of Professor John Friedmann by reflecting on his professional contributions in two ways. First, the paper provides an overview of Friedmann’s career as a planner and planning academic, which spanned six decades and three continents, and highlights how a confluence of factors led to a paradigm shift in his thinking regarding the role of planning in social transformation. Second, the paper assesses Friedmann’s position on three issues of importance for practitioners—namely, problem formulation, the role of technical knowledge, and organizational learning. The paper concludes that the establishment of UCLA’s planning program is a testament to Friedmann’s critical view of planning practice, which posed fundamental challenges to conventional thinking. His publications were more inspirational than pragmatic, but they will continue to influence planning deliberations, as normative ideas underpin most planning efforts. 2020-03-18T14:08:27Z 2020-03-18T14:08:27Z 2018-04 2020-03-10T12:46:21Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0194-4363 1939-0130 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124150 Sanyal, Bish. "A Planners’ Planner: John Friedmann’s Quest for a General Theory of Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association 84, 2 (April 2018): 179-191 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2018.1427616 Journal of the American Planning Association Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Informa UK Limited Prof. Sanyal via Jen Greenleaf |
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