Patsy Healey, Glen McDougall and Michael J. Thomas (1982), 'Theoretical Debates in Planning: Towards a Coherent Dialogue', Planning Theory Prospects for the 1980s, Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 5-22.

We have identified the following seven distinctive theoretical positions:- 1. Procedural planning theory 2. Incrementalism and other decision-making methodologies 3. Implementation and policy 4. Social planning and advocacy planning 5. Political economy approach 6. The new humanism 7. Pragmatism

Procedural Planning Theory

"PPT should be orIented to social welfare goals"

Social Planning and Advocacy Planning

"PPT is too concerned with policy design; the focus should be on policy in action"

Incrementalism

"All this theorizing gets us nowhere. We must concentrate on dOing things"

the

1. Procedural planning theory

2. Incrementalism and other decision-making methodologies

3. FACTORS UNDERLYING THE CHANGES IN THEORETICAL DEBATE

Changes in the planning profession

5. THE BOUNDARIES AND TERMS OF DEBATE: "PLANNING" AND "THEORY"

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