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Dilemmas in Contemporary Planning

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When I was a graduate student at MIT, I signed on for a part-time job. A MIT researcher.1 I knew was in the process of perfecting a new piece of software called City View/Town View. The program was designed to assist novice users in describing their own neighborhoods using an electronic story board. The program was not a complex one; it was essentially a customization/adaptation of Apple’s HyperCard.2

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Ramasubramanian, L. (2010). Dilemmas in Contemporary Planning. In: Geographic Information Science and Public Participation. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75401-5_1

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