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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811895703321

Autore

Lord Alex

Titolo

The planning game : an information economics approach to understanding urban and environmental management / / Alex Lord

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-68242-6

9786613659361

0-203-12744-7

1-136-46258-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

307.1/216

Soggetti

City planning - Economic aspects

Regional planning - Economic aspects

Urban economics

Urban policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Planning in the "information age" -- Is there something wrong with planning theory? -- Is there an alternative way of understanding planning? -- The infusion of economics into planning thought -- Introducing the planning game -- Conflict, power and risk -- Bargaining, negotiation and tactics -- Team games, coalitions and collaboration -- Putting the planning game in context.

Sommario/riassunto

Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of the debate.Dialogue between economics and planning theorists has been, until now, rare. Lord argues that information economics' tool kit, game theory - including well-known examples such as the Prisoners' Dilemma, the Stag Hunt game and Follow the Leader - offers an analytical framework idea