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Resources and Planning focuses on the trends, approaches, techniques, and emergence of new concepts in geography, as well as the use of models in planning endeavors. The selection first offers information on planning education and practice, including systems models and inner cities dilemma. The book...
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Pergamon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1979. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Pergamon Oxford geographers
Pergamon International library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080237107 |
| Summary: |
Resources and Planning focuses on the trends, approaches, techniques, and emergence of new concepts in geography, as well as the use of models in planning endeavors. The selection first offers information on planning education and practice, including systems models and inner cities dilemma. The book also examines planning processes and mathematical modeling in land use planning. Topics include general assessment and development of urban modeling; extensions and developments of the gravity model; essential dualism of knowledge and action; science and design as problem-solving processes; and pla. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xviii, 373 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780080237107 008023710X 9781483139685 1483139689 |
| Index Number: | HT166 |
| CLC: | TU984 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Resources and Planning; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; Section I: OVERVIEW; Chapter 1. Planning: A Geographer's View; The View Of The 1960s: The Systems Model; The Major Changes; Efficiency and Equity: The Inner Cities Dilemma; References; Chapter 2. On Planning Processes; Introduction; The Essential Dualism of Knowledge and Action: City Systems and Planning Processes; Science and Design as Problem-Solving Processes; Planning as Science and Design, Technics and Politics. Planning Processes Based on Certainty and SimplicityThe Rational Decision Model; The Limits to Rationality; Planning Processes as Social Learning; Conclusions; References; Section II: SCIENTIFIC BASES OF PLANNING; Introduction; References; Chapter 3. Mathematical Modelling in Land Use Planning; The Development of Urban Modelling; Extensions and Further Developments of the Gravity Model; Areas of Application and an Assessment of their Success; General Assessment of Urban Modelling; References; Chapter 4. Zone Definition in Spatial Modelling; Introduction; Problems of Zone System Design. Alternative Approaches to Zone System DesignConclusions; References; Chapter 5. Patterns of Information Use in Planning; Synopsis of the 1969 Study; Synopsis of the 1976 Update Study; Results of the Survey; General Conclusions; Glossary of abbreviations used; References; Chapter 6. Maps as Source Material; Introduction; Problemsin using Maps as Source Material; The Topographic Data Base: Great Britain; The Thematic Series: Great Britain; Maps for Spatial Referencing; Resources and Planning; The National Grid as a Spatial Framework; Conclusions; References. Chapter 7. Quantitative Developments in Geography and Planning in a Practical Reasoning FrameworkIntroduction; Causal and Practical Reasoning; Planning; Planning as Practical Reasoning; Relationships between the Causal and Practical Reasoning Schemas in Planning; Geography; A Positivist Tradition; A Hierarchy of Functions; Figure. 7.2. A Hierarchy of Functions; Conclusions; References; Section III: INVESTIGATING THE RESOURCE BASE; Introduction; References; Chapter 8. Terrain Evaluation; Introduction; Definitions; Scope; Natural Resources and Hazards; Nature of Natural Resources. The Place of GeomorphologyLand Resource Classification and Mapping; Regionalization and Terrain Classification; The Classification and Grouping of Landforms; Practical Physiographic Regionalizations; Terrain Evaluation Systems: General; Terrain Evaluation in Agriculture; Terrain Evaluation in Civil Engineering; Terrain Evaluation in Military Engineering; Landscape Resource Evaluation; Discussion; References; Chapter 9. Man's Impact on Climate with Particular Reference to Energy Balance Changes at the Earth's Surface; Introduction. |