Incremental Planning Theory | Radical Planning 101

Let's discuss the first major theory of urban planning to spin off of rational-comprehensive - incrementalism. Incrementalists believe small changes are best and that they are best made by the free market. Under an incrementalist framework, only the most powerful and well-connected can participate in the planning process.

Reading List/Sources:

Michael Brooks - Planning Theory for Practitioners.

Richard Behan - "Degenerate Democracy" https://scholarworks.umt.edu/plrlr/vo...

Charles Lindblom - "The Science of 'Muddling Through'" http://www.jstor.org/stable/973677?or...

Mäntysalo, Balducci, & Kangasoja - "Planning as Agonistic Communication in a Trading Zone: Re-examining Lindblom’s Partisan Mutual Adjustment" https://www.jstor.org/stable/26165931

Check out the first part of this series here:    • Rational-Comprehensive Planning Theor...