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Chan, Jeffrey Kok Hui.

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To improvise is human: Reconsidering planning in the society of risk.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	To improvise is human: Reconsidering planning in the society of risk./
Author:	Chan, Jeffrey Kok Hui.
Description:	384 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: A, page: 2250.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-06A.
Subject:	Political Science, Public Administration. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3411065
ISBN:	9781124035772

To improvise is human: Reconsidering planning in the society of risk.
Chan, Jeffrey Kok Hui.

To improvise is human: Reconsidering planning in the society of risk. - 384 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: A, page: 2250.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2009.

Various studies on practical actions have discussed improvisation, yet improvisation has not received serious treatment in planning theory, even when the theoretical development in planning theory has indicated a need to include improvisation. No planner can anticipate all the consequences of his or her action. Furthermore, no planner can fully know or predict the uncertainties in the planning environment ahead of time. To overcome these challenges, the planner must improvise. The case of Sydney Opera House demonstrates that improvisation is inevitable and necessary for complex planning. However, improvisation also introduces risk into planning. The introduction of risky improvisation into planning must therefore also engage ethics. It is however one matter to evaluate improvisation through ethics and quite another to improvise ethically. Planning theory is thus obliged to wrestle with the consequences of chronic and ethically uncertain improvisation in planning today. Today, the most pressing planning issues---the economy, urban development, technology and security---are premised on a course of action that is increasingly becoming unsustainable and hence questionable. In the absence of an alternative way to plan, little recourse exists for planners except to improvise. Yet it is impossible to improvise like this without suffering the negative externalities from chronic improvisation. For this reason, I propose the Inter-Generational Planning (IGP) framework comprising four principles, namely responsibility, precaution, self-limitation, and hope, to guide planning from now into the future.

ISBN: 9781124035772Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017438
Political Science, Public Administration.

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