Plan or Projection: An Examination of the Use of Models in Planning

摘要: Abstract Editor's note: During the past few years land use and traffic models have been developed to stage at which they are now actively being applied in professional practice. This event has met with both favor disfavor, ranging from enthusiastic acceptance unqualified rejection. We confident that extremes of these responses cannot long be sustained will find an appropriate constructive place city metropolitan planning-a acceptable all or most members profession. therefore invited Britton Harris pose questions raise. As a planner who is himself maker user models, but also highly respectful skills accomplishments those reject them, he well equipped examine issues. In this carefully reasoned sympathetic essay, makes his own position clear, succeeded, we think, clearly explaining what model is, posing some important questions...