TY - JOUR
T1 - Planning rules for a self-planned city
AU - Alfasi, Nurit
AU - Portugali, Juval
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - Planning theory, laws, and systems are essentially procedural in that they focus on the process of planning and decision-making but do not deal with the substance of the decisions nor their impact on cities. They emphasize the role of the many (f)actors that shape the built environment rather than the resultant properties of the built environment itself. This is true both for the rational comprehensive theory of the 1960s and the 1990s postmodern theory of communicative planning theory. In this article we claim that current planning weaknesses, on the one hand, and viewing cities as complex self-organizing systems, on the other, require re-linking planning theory, law, and administration to the substantive qualitative relations between the various urban elements. We then introduce, first, an example for theorizing such an 'Urban Code' that turns the spatial relations into a planning rule and, second, a suggestion for a planning system that is responsive to these qualitative relations and is capable of updating them.
AB - Planning theory, laws, and systems are essentially procedural in that they focus on the process of planning and decision-making but do not deal with the substance of the decisions nor their impact on cities. They emphasize the role of the many (f)actors that shape the built environment rather than the resultant properties of the built environment itself. This is true both for the rational comprehensive theory of the 1960s and the 1990s postmodern theory of communicative planning theory. In this article we claim that current planning weaknesses, on the one hand, and viewing cities as complex self-organizing systems, on the other, require re-linking planning theory, law, and administration to the substantive qualitative relations between the various urban elements. We then introduce, first, an example for theorizing such an 'Urban Code' that turns the spatial relations into a planning rule and, second, a suggestion for a planning system that is responsive to these qualitative relations and is capable of updating them.
KW - Complexity
KW - Planning democracy
KW - Planning theory
KW - Urban code
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34347340544&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1473095207077587
DO - 10.1177/1473095207077587
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AN - SCOPUS:34347340544
SN - 1473-0952
VL - 6
SP - 164
EP - 182
JO - Planning Theory
JF - Planning Theory
IS - 2
ER -