Rationality revisited: Planning paradigms in a post-postmodernist perspective

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 242-256

  Alexander, Ernest R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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PLANNING THEORY; POST-MODERNISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0343090442     PISSN: 0739456X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0739456x0001900303     Document Type: Review

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