ADVANCED PLANNING THEORY AND HISTORY I
UP 222B
REVISED 11.29.2012
Professor Lois Takahashi
Office: 3357A PAB
TEL: (310) 429-8641
Office Hours: Mon 9:00 – 1:00 pm
and by appointment
Email: takahash@ucla.edu
Winter 2013
Time: Mon 2:00 – 4:50 pm
Location: 6362 Pub Aff
Overview
The overall goal of this two-course sequence (UP222B-C, Advanced Planning Theory and History I and II)
is to enable first year Urban Planning doctoral students to understand and build on fundamental concepts and
theories that inform planning research and scholarship. To reach this goal, the course sequence has
substantive/knowledge and skills.
For this first course/UP222B, in terms of the substantive/knowledge objectives, by the end of the quarter,
students should understand:
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the historical foundations of planning practice, and how planning practice connects to planning
theory
the ways in which philosophies and conceptual foundations have developed over time to inform
planning theory
the fundamental assumptions in and similarities/differences among the following topics: rationality
and science; neoclassical economics; public choice and libertarianism; Marxism and applied
Marxist/neo-Marxist analysis
In terms of skills, by the end of the quarter, students should be:
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able to apply diverse theories to specific research interests
more familiar with the purpose and structure of literature reviews
able to orally present important theories and concepts in planning
To meet these substantive/knowledge and skills/PhD program objectives, the class will require that everyone
read all assigned materials before class and participate substantially in all discussions.
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Required Readings
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Most of the assigned readings are either included in a Reader available through UCLA’s LuValle
Bookstore (Academic Publishing) or available on-line from the UCLA Library or course web page
(https://ccle.ucla.edu/course/view/13W-URBNPL222B-1; you must login to be able to download course
materials).
Three of the books (Hall, Friedmann, and Kuhn) are available through the LuValle Bookstore.
Class structure
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The first 1-1.5 hours of each class will be comprised of lecture/discussion.
The final 1-1.5 hours of class will be devoted to an in-class exercise aimed at critically analyzing the
readings and concepts.
As part of the class, you are also required to attend all presentations at the PhD Forum (meeting times and
presentations to be announced).
Grading/Assignments
1. Class discussion and PhD Forum attendance (50%).
• Class attendance and participation in discussions is mandatory.
• Discussion and participation in the in-class activities is required.
• Attendance at all PhD Forums is mandatory.
• You are required to write up a one-page summary and critique of the presentations.
• Each summary/critique will be due at the beginning of the following class meeting.
2. Application of readings to your research interests (25%)
• A one-page overview of the set of readings as they apply to your research interests, including
strengths/gaps, is due the week following the group discussion/lecture (first overview due February 4
via email by the beginning of class – takahash@ucla.edu)
• You are required to develop a one-page application of the concepts (you are free to use one or more
of the required readings as the basis for this discussion) to your current research interests
• The one-page overview should consist of the following:
o 1-2 sentence description of your research interests (this may change or remain the same from
week to week); please try to frame this as a research question
o 1 paragraph summarizing the concepts you are using to apply to your question
o 1 paragraph applying the concepts to your research interests
o 1-2 sentences indicating the strengths/gaps of these concepts to your research
interests/question
3. Analysis of Published Literature Reviews (25%)
• The analysis will be both written (~10 pages total) and oral (presentation to the class).
• You are required to review and analyze 3 published literature reviews in the topic areas/fields that
you plan to study for your subfields (examples of journals that publish literature reviews include:
Journal of Planning Literature, Progress in Human Geography); in other words, select a published
literature review for each of your subfields that you think you will be including in your Plan of Study
(you should be talking with your advisors about the selection of these subfields)
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The written document should include: the full bibliographic citation for each article, a brief overview
of the topic/question covered in the article, and an analysis of the style and substance of each article.
• Style: analyze the structure of the literature review (how is the article organized?, how does the
article organize the works discussed?), how/why the article is an effective review of the literature
(is the article clear?, what are its strengths/gaps?)
• Substance: what works are covered?; who are the seminal thinkers in the field?; are there any
scholars that you think are left out? (why should they be included in the review?)
You are required to make a 10 minute PowerPoint presentation (8 slides max) to the class on March 4 or
11. Using comments and suggestions, you will revise your analysis.
This analysis is due March 18 by 12 noon via email to takahash@ucla.edu.
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Administrative Details
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Written assignments must be emailed to takahash@ucla.edu by the beginning of class. No late
assignments will be accepted unless prior arrangements have been made with the instructor.
Type and double space your literature review analysis (the weekly application of concepts to your
research interests and PhD Forum/Perloff lectures/”job talk” summaries should be single spaced).
DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. If you copy any text, you must indicate this by quoting and citing the
author(s).
“Take care of the easy stuff.” Spell-check your discussion outline and paper, and READ them. Check
for grammatical errors. An error-free paper looks professional and is much more likely to get a positive
response than one that is sloppy.
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WEEK TOPIC/
READING ASSIGNMENT
ASSIGN. DUE
Jan 7
Introduction,
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ground rules
for critique
Jan 14
Jan 21
Jan 28
Feb 4
• Hall, Peter. 2002 (3rd edition). Cities of Tomorrow.
Oxford: Blackwell.
CHAPTERS 1-9
• Hall, Peter. 2002 (3rd edition). Cities of Tomorrow.
Oxford: Blackwell.
CHAPTER 10
• Friedmann, John. 1987. Planning in the Public
Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press.
PART II (pp. 51-308)
Rationality and • Kuhn, Thomas. 1970 (2nd edition). The Structure of
Science
Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
ENTIRE BOOK
• Alexander, Ernest. 2000. “Rationality Revisited:
Planning Paradigms in a Post-Postmodernist
Perspective.” Journal of Planning Education and
Research 19: 242-256.
(available on-line on course web page)
Economics and • Friedman, Milton. 1982. Capitalism and Freedom.
Markets
INTRODUCTION, CHAPTERS I, VIII, PP.1-21, 119136 (available course web page)
• 1 page
• Lindblom, Charles. 1977. Politics and Markets. NY:
application to
Basic Books.
research due
CHAPTERS 3, 12, 13, pp. 33-51, 161-188 (READER)
via email (on
• Moore, Terry. 1978. “Why Allow Planners to Do
rationality/
What They Do? A Justification from Economic
science)
Theory.” Journal of the American Planning Association
44(4): 387-398. (available on-line UCLA Library)
• Richardson, Harry W. and Peter Gordon. 1993.
“Market Planning: Oxymoron or Common Sense?”
Journal of the American Planning Association 59(3):
347-352. (available on-line UCLA Library)
• Banerjee, Tridib. 1993. “Market Planning, Market
Planners, and Planned Markets.” Journal of the
American Planning Association 353-360. (available online UCLA Library)
History of
Planning
Practice
Evolution of
Theories in/of
Planning
IN-CLASS
ACTIVITY
Where do our
research
interests come
from? (paired
activity)
Chronology of
events
Match
chronology of
events to
emergence of
theories
What is
rational about
my research?
(paired
activity)
Is my research
question about
public goods?
(paired
activity)
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WEEK TOPIC/ ASSIGN. DUE READING ASSIGNMENT
Feb 11
Public Choice and
Libertarianism
• 1 page application to
research due via email
(on economics/
markets)
Feb 18
Marxist Analysis
• 1 page application to
research due via email
(on public choice/
libertarianism)
Feb 25
Applied Marxist/NeoMarxist Analysis
• 1 page application to
research due via email
(on marxist analysis)
Mar 4
Lit Review Analysis
Presentations
• 1 page application to
research due via email
(on applied marxist
analysis)
Mar 11 Lit Review Analysis
Presentations;
Course Summary, Intro
to 222C
Mar 18 Lit Review Analysis
Due
• Hayek, F. 1944. The Road to Serfdom. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
INTRODUCTION, CHAPTERS I, II, III, IV, V (pp.
1-72) (READER)
• Olson, Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective
Action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
CHAPTERS I, II (pp. 5-65) (READER)
• Sowell, Thomas. 1980. Knowledge and Decisions.
NY: Basic Books.
CHAPTER 5 (pp. 114-149) (READER)
• Tiebout, Charles. 1956. “A Pure Theory of Local
Expenditures,” Journal of Political Economy, 64(5):
416-424. (available through course web page)
• Marx, Karl. 1977. Capital: a critique of political
economy. Transl: Fowkes, Ben. NY: Vintage
Books. (see also David Harvey’s lectures on Marx’
Capital - http://davidharvey.org/)
INTRODUCTION (pp. 11-86) (READER)
• Tucker, Robert C. (ed). 1978 (2nd edition). The
Marx-Engels Reader. NY: Norton.
PART II, pp. 203-465
• Harvey, David. 1989. The urban experience.
Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.
CHAPTERS 1, 4 (pp. 17-58, 109-124) (READER)
• Scott, Allen J. 1988. Metropolis. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
CHAPTER 9 (pp. 160-202) (READER)
• Storper, Michael and Richard Walker. 1989. The
Capitalist Imperative. NY: Basil Blackwell.
INTRODUCTION AND CHAPTER 1 (pp. 1-35)
(READER)
Please prepare a 10 minute (8 slides max)
PowerPoint presentation
-- analysis: components/elements;
organization/structure; comprehensiveness vs
exhaustiveness)
• Please prepare a 10 minute (8 slides max)
PowerPoint presentation
-- analysis: components/elements;
organization/structure; comprehensiveness vs
exhaustiveness)
Selection of Assignments for Seminar/Discussion for
UP222C (syllabus distributed)
Due by 12 noon via email (takahash@ucla.edu)
IN-CLASS
ACTIVITY
Exercise about
group size:
group
discussion
about tradeoffs
Discussion of
Marxist
concepts
Rearticulating
my research
question using
a neo-marxist
approach
Comments/
suggestions for
presenters
Comments/
suggestions for
presenters
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