Alex Lord

The Planning Game

An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The sharing of information and knowledge is essential in the processes and negotiations involved in planning. In this book, Alex Lord sets out a new way of looking at the transfer of information and the cooperation of groups in planning by exploring the strand of economics known as information economics, including game theory. He starts by discussing theories of information economics, then moves into actual accounts of bargaining in planning practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780415599054
• ISBN-10: 0415599059
• Artikelnr.: 35304052

Autorenporträt

Alex Lord worked in the financial services industry before completing a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester's School of Environment and Development. He is currently lecturer in the Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1 1. Planning in the 'Information Age' 2. Is There
Something Wrong with Planning Theory? 3. Is There an Alternative Way of
Understanding Planning? 4. The Infusion of Economics into Planning Thought
Part 2 5. Introducing the Planning Game 6. Conflict, Power and Risk 7.
Bargaining, Negotiation and Tactics 8. Team Games, Coalitions and
Collaboration 9. Putting the Planning Game in Context