Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning: Background to the NATO Advanced Research Institute

      • Michael Batty, Bruce Hutchinson

      Pages 3-11

   3. Introduction to the Papers

      • Michael Batty, Bruce Hutchinson

      Pages 13-15

   4. The Poverty of Problem Solving

      • Geoffrey Vickers

      Pages 17-28

3. Critical Assessments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The Technology of Urban Systems Modelling: Nagging Questions, Sagging Hopes, and Reasons for Continued Research

      • Michael A. Goldberg

      Pages 31-51

   3. The Effectiveness of Urban Transport Systems Analysis

      • Bruce Hutchinson

      Pages 53-67

   4. Systematic Methods in Strategic Land Use Planning: Some Reflections on Recent British Experience

      • Peter Batey

      Pages 69-87

   5. Strategic Land Use Planning: An Evaluation of Procedural Methodology

      • Ian Masser

      Pages 89-106

   6. Systems Analysis in Planning: A Critique of Critiques

      • Michael Breheny

      Pages 107-121

4. Systems Analysis in Diverse Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. The Impact of Systems Analysis on Urban Planning: The West German Experience

      • Michael Wegener

      Pages 125-151

   3. On the Use of Strategic Planning Models in Iberian Cities

      • Pedro Geraldes

      Pages 153-167

   4. Systems Analysis in a Developing Country: The Case in Turkey

      • Gunduz Ulusoy

      Pages 169-176

   5. Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning: The Munich Experience

      • Klaus Schussmann

      Pages 177-191

   6. French Local Planning Practice

      • Robert Laurini

      Pages 193-203

5. Applications of Systems Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Early Warning Systems for Urban Policy-Making and Planning

      • John Dickey

      Pages 207-226

   3. Multiregional Population Analysis for Urban and Regional Planning

      • Frans Willekens

      Pages 227-241

In September 1980, the Special Programme Panel on Systems Sciences of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sponsored an Advanced Research Institute (ARI) on "Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning" which was held at New College, Univer­ sity of Oxford, from 21st to 27th September. This week-long meeting brought together 35 invited delegates from most countries of the NATO Alliance to discuss the impact which syst~ms analysis has had and is likely to have on urban affairs. The manuscript was submitted to the publisher in June of 1982. Although the goal of the ARI was to assess the impact of urban systems analysis as seen through the eyes of those closely involved in such work, the meeting also addressed opportunities for future research and development, and therefore in this book we have attempted to synthesize discussions at the meeting with this in mind. But before we describe the structure of this book, it is worth recounting in a little more detail the intentions and organi­ zation of the meeting, for this has had an important effect on the type of papers produced here, the way they have been written, and the issues they address.

• Government
• philosophy
• policy-making
• reflection
• urban planning

• Institute of Science and Technology, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

  Michael Batty

• University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Bruce Hutchinson

Policies and ethics