Pragmatic Rational Planning: Comparing Shanghai and Chicago

Planners in Shanghai and Chicago inhabit contrasting institutional planning systems. Despite these differences, the professional planners exhibit a shared commitment to basic rational planning doctrine. But most importantly, they practice a kind of pragmatic planning that adapts the principles of sustainability and an inclusive public interest to everyday planning conduct. Professional planners share a kind of practical intelligence acquired through university education that they use to pragmatically pursue shared planning norms within different institutional settings

Brinkley_Appendix_A – Supplemental material for The Ebb and Flow of Planning Specializations

<p>Supplemental material, Brinkley_Appendix_A for The Ebb and Flow of Planning Specializations by Catherine Brinkley and Charles Hoch in Journal of Planning Education and Research</p