Understanding context and its influence on collaborative planning processes: a contribution to communicative planning theory

understanding "planning theory" and its typologies

the aim of this paper is presenting an account of the development of the body of knowledge which so far has been known as planning theory. this branch of knowledge studies the major issues related to different kinds of planning. hough, the origin of planning practice was in soviet :union: , the first steps toward creating a set of theoretical axioms for justifying and explaining planning was ta...

A Collaborative Planning Approach to Discourse Understanding

Approaches to discourse understanding fall roughly into two categories: those that treat mental states as elemental and thus reason directly about them, and those that do not reason about the beliefs and intentions of agents themselves, but about the propositions and actions that might be considered objects of those beliefs and intentions. The rst type of approach is a mental phenomenon approac...

Communicative planning theory and community initiatives

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...

the effects of planning on accuracy and complexity of iranian efl students’ written narrative task performance

this study compared the different effects of form-focused guided planning vs. meaning-focused guided planning on iranian pre-intermediate students’ task performance. the study lasted for three weeks and concentrated on eight english structures. forty five pre-intermediate iranian students were randomly assigned to three groups of guided planning focus-on-form group (gpfg), guided planning focus...