Planning without Theory; The unheard Voice of Collapse of Technocratic Planning in Iran

Document Type : Research Article

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Assistant Professor of Institute of social & cultural studie, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

More than 70 years after official initiation of planning in Iran, the term & the profession of “Planning”, still premised as absolute, abstract, disciplinary, positive, undiscussable, needless of deliberation & reflectivity, while reviewing the intellectual changes of the issue, especially in US & Europe implies to the End of Positivistic- Technocratic Paradigm of planning & emergence of the new field of “theory of planning” in recent 50 years. Through qualitative meta analysis of the most important recently-published books & essays about planning & near fields like development & policy in Persian, this article shows that the blast of the collapse of rational-technocratic planning & emergence of “theory of planning” didn’t reach to Iranian knowledge of planning yet. The only exception is discipline of “Urban Planning” which misunderst&s the deep paradigm shift in “theory of planning” with new narrow changes in “theories in urban planning area”. In conclusion after sketching the overall horizon of alternative Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning & discussing some causes & contexts of this theoretical-historical lag from sociology of planning perspective, various strategic recommendations to compensate the regression is being presented. 

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Iranian Journal of Public Policy
Volume 8, Issue 1
2022
Pages 79-92

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