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Social Context

Planning is a social activity and requires understanding the social context of decision making including: the nature of community, social inequality, political power, socio-spatial change, technological change, and the relationship between the built environment and human behavior.

Source Of Description

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-469Spring-2007/CourseHome/index.htm, MITOPENCOURSEWARE, Urban Sociology in Theory and Practice, Prof. Diane Davis (No Longer Available)

Parent Categories

Planning/Decision Context

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Susan Crow

Last Updated

6/5/2008

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