Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning

Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning: Background to the NATO Advanced Research Institute.- to the Papers.- The Poverty of Problem-Solving.- 1: Critical Assessments.- The Technology of Urban Systems Modelling: Nagging Questions, Sagging Hopes and Reasons for Continued Research.- The Effectiveness of Urban Transport Systems Analysis.- Systematic Methods in Strategic Land Use Planning: Reflections on Recent British Experience.- Strategic Land Use Planning: An Evaluation of Procedural Methodology.- Systems Analysis in Planning: A Critique of Critiques.- 2: Systems Analysis in Diverse Contexts.- The Impact of Systems Analysis on Urban Planning: The West German Experience.- On the Use of Strategic Planning Models in Iberian Cities.- Systems Analysis in a Developing Country: The Case in Turkey.- Systems Analysis in Urban Policy-Making and Planning: The Munich Experience.- French Local Planning Practice.- 3: Applications of Systems Models.- Early Warning Systems for Urban Policy-Making and Planning.- Multiregional Population Analysis for Urban and Regional Planning.- The Sao Paulo Metropolitan Study: A Case Study of the Effectiveness of Urban Systems Analysis.- Agency Policy Requirements and System Design.- 4: Policy Analysis.- The Failure of Model Use for Policy Analysis in Regional Planning.- Applications of Corporate Planning in Urban Policy Analysis and Decision-Making.- Political Realities and the Implementation of Urban Transport Policies.- Tyne and Wear and Hong Kong: Can Systems Analysis Tackle the Realities of Decision-Making?.- Systems Concepts in Government Planning: Experience and Prospects.- 5: Philosophies of Systems Analysis.- Systems Analysis and Urban Policy.- Reflections on and Implications of Systems Analysis as a Sociological Phenomenon.- Models, Metaphors and the State of Knowledge.- On Systems Theory in Urban Planning: An Assessment.- What Reasons for Rationality? In Search of a Future for Rational Methods in Urban Planning.- 6: Emerging Themes.- Positive and Normative Aspects of Modelling Large-Scale Social Systems.- Planning and Decision-Making in Human Systems: Modelling Self-Organization.- Technology Considerations in Urban Systems Analysis.- A Plea for Planning-Oriented Research.- Conclusions.- Attitudes towards Urban Systems Analysis: A Survey of Participants.- The Future of Urban Systems Analysis: Issues, Themes and Recommendations of the Institute.- The Authors and Participants in the Institute.- Author Index.