The Planning Game: An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management

by Alex Lord

Book Overview

Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of the debate.

Dialogue between economics and planning theorists has been, until now, rare. Lord argues that information economics' tool kit, game...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415599059
• ISBN13: 9780415599054
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"