Practitioners Theorize, Too: Reaffirming Planning Theory in a Survey of Practitioners’ Theories

Journal of Planning Education and Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 76-85

  Whittemore, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

planning history; planning theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923919528     PISSN: 0739456X     EISSN: 15526577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X14563144     Document Type: Article

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