Comprehensive Planning: A New Field of Study

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Abstract
Many professional fields are now involved directly in different applications of planning: architecture, economics, engineering, geography, business and governmental management, mathematics and operations research, military and physical planning, sociology. Such recent intellectual advances as information and decision theory, game and communication theory, symbolic logic, mathematical and other simulation, queueing theory, linear programming, or the psychology of groups are being applied successfully to planning problems. From a synthesis of these professional and intellectual activities, a theory, principles, and methodology of comprehensive planning are likely to develop. This substantive body of knowledge will become an important field of study.

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