Planning under Pressure: The Strategic Choice Approach: 37 (Urban & regional planning) - Hardcover

Friend, J. K; Hickling, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080187668 ISBN 13: 9780080187662

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1987

Synopsis

'Planning Under Pressure' offers a versatile and practical set of planning methods for collaborative decision making, which is ideally suited for reaching decisions in conditions of uncertainty. This approach is equally valid for planning and development decisions in local government and strategic business planning. When 'Planning Under Pressure' appeared in 1987, it was the first mature exposition of the Strategic Choice Approach. Since then, the approach has been gathering support among decision makers, while also becoming widely taught in management, planning and policy schools. The second edition reflects the diverse range of contexts in which the Strategic Choice Approach is now put to work: management, urban planning, public policy making, community action, and sustainable development in third world countries. New material includes a chapter on the role of software, and coverage of recent theoretical advances.

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Review:

Views of this edition: 'Planning Under Pressure is simply the best book to come out of any problem structuring method. It is a model of lucidity, organization and presentation. Now it is even better! The book shows the reader how to carry out Strategic Choice both with and without the elegant software.' Jonathan Rosenhead, Professor of Operational Research, London School of Economics 'Working with companies such as Sainsbury's, RTZ and PowerGen, I have found Strategic Choice invaluable. The approach helps groups of managers cut through complexities, uncertainties and controversies. Richard Ormerod, Professor and Director of Executive Short Course Programme, Warwick Business School. 'Strategic Choice represents one of the most original contributions ever made to a working theory of planning. The new edition of Friend and Hickling's book powerfully reminds us of this.' Peter Hall, Professor of Planning, University College London. Reviews of the first edition: 'Planning Under Pressure is an extraordinarily useful text for students of planning who are bent on adapting economic rationality to the constraints of real life practice. The book should enjoy a long and vigorous life.' Donald Schon, Professor of Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'The Strategic Choice Approach represents a major innovation in planning theory...It shows the importance of including all stakeholders and of building increasingly wide networks...It has occasioned a sea-change in the outlook of my students...I have also used it with great success in a number of organizational field projects with managers in both the public and private sectors.' Eric Trust, Formerly Chairman of Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Pennsylvania.

About the Author:

Allen Hickling has a professional background in architecture and city planning, and practised in North America before joining the Tavistock Institute in 1971. From 1980 he worked for two decades as an independent decision process consultant, focusing in particular on multi-cultural projects to engage stakeholders in the development of environmental policies at local, national and international levels. He has designed and facilitated planning workshops in 29 countries in six continents, while introducing many of his collaborators to the skills of process management he has acquired. John Friend is co-author of two earlier books on strategic choice and inter-organizational planning. Gradually forsaking his early schooling in mathematics, he spent a decade in industrial operational research before joining the Tavistock Institute in 1964. Since becoming a freelance consultant in 1986, he has held visiting research professorships at the universities of Sheffield and Lincoln. He has recently developed interactive software based on the Strategic Choice Approach, while also pioneering the use of participatory decision-centred methods in international development and community empowerment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0080187668
• ISBN 13: 9780080187662
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 338