Planning Systems as Institutional Technologies: A Proposed Conceptualization and the Implications for Comparison

Planning Practice and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-85

  Janin Rivolin, Umberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; PLANNING SYSTEM; PLANNING THEORY; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL PLANNING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84859597605     PISSN: 02697459     EISSN: 13600583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2012.661181     Document Type: Article

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