Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning

1. Applications of Systems Models

   1. The Sao Paulo Metropolitan Study: A Case Study of the Effectiveness of Urban Systems Analysis

      • Marcial Echenique

      Pages 243-270

   2. Agency Policy Requirements and System Design

      • William Goldner

      Pages 271-290

2. Policy Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291

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   2. The Failure of Model Use for Policy Analysis in Regional Planning

      • Janet Rothenberg Pack

      Pages 293-308

   3. Applications of Corporate Planning in Urban Policy Analysis and Decision-Making

      • Juri Pill

      Pages 309-326

   4. Political Realities and the Implementation of Urban Transport Policies

      • John Bonsall

      Pages 327-340

   5. Tyne and Wear and Hong Kong: Can Systems Analysis Tackle the Realities of Decision-Making?

      • Tony M. Ridley

      Pages 341-361

   6. Systems Concepts in Government Planning: Experience and Prospects

      • Douglas T. Wright

      Pages 363-376

3. Philosophies of Systems Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 377-377

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   2. Systems Analysis and Urban Policy

      • E. S. Savas

      Pages 379-389

   3. Reflections on and Implications of Systems Analysis as a Sociological Phenomenon

      • Ida R. Hoos

      Pages 391-405

   4. Models, Metaphors and the State of Knowledge

      • Sam Cole

      Pages 407-421

   5. On Systems Theory and Analysis in Urban Planning: An Assessment

      • Michael Batty

      Pages 423-447

   6. What Reasons for Rationality? In Search of a Future for Rational Methods in Urban Planning

      • Helen Couclelis

      Pages 449-472

4. Emerging Themes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 473-473

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   2. Positive and Normative Aspects of Modelling Large-Scale Social Systems

      • Britton Harris

      Pages 475-490

   3. Planning and Decision-Making in Human Systems: Modelling Self-Organization

      • Peter Allen

      Pages 491-524

   4. Technology Considerations in Urban Systems Analysis

      • William L. Garrison

      Pages 525-544

   5. A Plea for Planning-Oriented Research

      • Henk Voogd

      Pages 545-564

5. Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 565-565

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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