On Teaching Planning Theory and Practice: Four Striking Exercises

A Critical View on New Urbanism Theory in Urban Planning: From Theory to Practice

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

Teaching Algorithmics – Theory and Practice

Efficient algorithms and data structures are important fundamentals of all sophisticated computer applications. For that reason, these topics are included in Computer Science and Business Informatics curricula at almost all universities. Indeed, the classic textbooks present algorithms mainly as pure mathematical results [3]. They leave the challenges of their implementation to the readers. On ...

Theory and Practice in Planning

This paper explores opportunities for synergy between theoretical and applied researchers in the area of automated planning. From the diiering perspectives of theorists, experimentalists, and practitioners, we examine the causes of current dissatisfaction with existing theoretical and experimental results. We survey approaches from theoretical computer science that provide alternatives to the s...

Language Planning: Theory and Practice

Teaching Concurrency: Theory in Practice

Teaching courses that rely on sound mathematical principles is nowadays a challenging task at many universities. On the one hand there is an increased demand for educating students in these areas, on the other hand there are more and more students being accepted with less adequate skills in mathematics. We report here on our experiences in teaching concurrency theory over the last twenty years ...