Rational-Comprehensive Planning Theory | Radical Planning 101

I'm kicking off a new series of short videos about the fundamentals of urban planning for planners and non-planners alike. In this video I'll discuss the urban planning's first major theoretical frame work - the rational-comprehensive theory of planning. While rational-comprehensive planning is a somewhat taboo subject today, it pervades every aspect of the profession.

Sources/Reading List:

Michael Brooks - Planning Theory for Practitioners.

Stephen Grabow & Allan Heskin - "Foundations for a Radical Concept of Planning," https://www.tandfonline.com/action/sh...

Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghadam & Mojtaba Rafieian - "If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theories," https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2019....

Rahder, Barbara - "Cracks in the Foundation of Traditional Planning," https://www.plannersnetwork.org/2002/....

Sam Stein - Capital City.