What Planners Do: Power, Politics, and Persuasion

by Charles J. Hoch

Book Overview

"What Planners Do" is an innovative study of strategies used by urban planners in city governments of the United States to grapple with the political side of their profession. Hoch focuses on the attitudes of planners toward the compromises they make to accommodate political conflict, budgetary constraints, and bureaucratic red tape. Covered are the ways planners utilize research, formulate plans, regulate development, organize political coalitions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918286913
• ISBN13: 9780918286918
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: American Planning Association
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.