Planning Methods: An Analysis of Supply and Demand
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Vol. 6 (1) , 10-21
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x8600600104
Abstract
This article examines evolving changes in the demand for analytic methods among planning practitioners and the supply of these methods by graduate planning schools in the United States Two surveys were conducted, one involving directors of planning agencies and the other involving planning schools Of the 28 analytic techniques included on the questionnaires, an average of 22 are taught in the responding academic programs Microcomputers now are almost ubiquitous in both the agencies and schools represented, and interest appears to have become quite great in possible applications of them on the part of both groups. Overall, it can be concluded that the demand for analytic techniques by planning practitioners has grown and the demand for and supply of these techniques within the field of planning have convergedKeywords
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