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John Friedmann (April 16, 1926 – June 11, 2017) was an Honorary Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and Professor Emeritus at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. [1] He was the founding professor of the Program for Urban Planning in the Graduate School of ...
John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice.
Jul 24, 2022 · John Friedmann (1926–2017), one of the most authoritative voices in planning theory, a long time university professor at UCLA (followed by engagement at RMIT Melbourne and UBC), with honorary degrees from the Catholic University of Chile, the University of Dortmund in Germany, York University in Toronto, and the University of British Columbia, sometimes called the “pope of planning ...
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John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice.
Jun 16, 2020 · John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice. Three of these--social reform, policy analysis, and social learning--are primarily ...
Apr 5, 2018 · Acknowledgments. I am most grateful for the extensive research assistance provided by my doctoral student, Babak Manouchehrifar, who had known John Friedmann from his time as a student in Iran and read most of Friedmann’s published work with much care.
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Friedmann, John. "2. Two Centuries of Planning Theory: An Overview" In Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action, 51-86.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
