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Volume 5 - October 1993

Contents

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Book Reviews

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  • Reading Old Plans

  • Seymour J. Mandelbaum
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    14 October 2011, pp. 189-198

  • My initial decision to explicate how I read formal planning texts was provoked by the 1988 publication of a scheme for the CBD of Philadelphia and the adjacent residential neighborhoods. I thought initially that I might be able to help people directly read The Plan for Center City. Ultimately, however, I settled on a more modest goal: encouraging a conversation among planners about both reading and writing plans. My contribution to that conversation, an essay entitled “Reading Plans,” started with the notion that a plan, like any other text, creates images of an “ideal” and a “real” author and reader. I went on to explore the ways in which I located myself within and against those images. Once I'd fixed my location, I suggested, I read the core of a plan—whether it was a budget, a simple plat of streets and lots, a formal set of legal rules controlling land use, or an elaborately argued hybrid like The Plan for Center City—in three complementary ways: as a complex set of policy arguments, as an elaboration of a decision opportunity, and as a story.

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  • JPH volume 5 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    14 October 2011, pp. f1-f4
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    14 October 2011, pp. b1-b6
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  • JPH volume 5 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    14 October 2011, pp. b1-b5
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