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Theoryless Planning

Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, ap.talvitie{at}tkk.fi, atalvitie{at}worldbank.org

The article begins unconventionally and experientially — with memories that became the wellspring for the author's doubts about the scientific basis of (transport) planning. These memories form an essential substrate for the formal presentation which offers a scientific approach to (transport) planning that is experiential rather than positivist. The transition from the informal to the formal presentation is via a short history of planning. The article proposes a planning process and technique, which is `beyond postmodernism'. This theoryless planning model takes the almost incomprehensible web of associations in the human unconscious as its starting point, and patterns it as a modern psychoanalytic process and technique for individuals and groups. A glossary of key terms is included.

Key Words: planning technique • planning theory • process of change • psychoanalysis and planning process • transport

Planning Theory, Vol. 8, No. 2, 166-190 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1473095209102233


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