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Planning Craft: How Planners Compose Plans

University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, chashoch{at}uic.edu

Conceiving urban plan making as practical judgment shifts theoretical attention from questions of belief to questions of meaning. How do we make urban plans that combine intelligent coordination with savvy communication to anticipate and cope with urban complexity? Consider adopting a pragmatic approach that relies on coherence to inform the appraisal, comparison and selection that accompany practical judgment. Plans compose the meaning and consequence of future actions. Pragmatic composition combines representation and interpretation to frame problems of urban complexity. Four orientations are described using plan examples: protocol, precedent, prototype and policy.

Key Words: composition • frames • plans • practical judgment • pragmatism

Planning Theory, Vol. 8, No. 3, 219-241 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1473095209105528


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