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

• Autore: Lord Alex
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/216
• Soggetto topico: City planning - Economic aspects; Regional planning - Economic aspects; Urban economics; Urban policy
• 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Information economics approach to understanding urban and environmental management
• Titolo autorizzato: The planning game
• ISBN: 1-280-68242-6; 9786613659361; 0-203-12744-7; 1-136-46258-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790397203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II