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AbstractAre we on he right track in city plannig?

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Chapter 1 SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE TOWN PLANNER -- Chapter 2 STAGES IN A RESEARCH PROJECT -- Chapter 3 SELF-ADMINISTERED AND INTERVIEW SURVEYS -- Chapter 4 QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN -- Chapter 5 PROFILE DATA -- Chapter 6 SAMPLES AND SAMPLING METHODS -- Chapter 7 DATA ANALYSIS -- Chapter 8 NON-SURVEY RESEARCH TECHNIQUES -- Bibliography -- INDEX

Apparently we should all be installing heat pumps real quick and right now. Germany's Greens seem to have a problem with doing so:Germany's Greens are facing ridicule over reports that they have failed to install a heat pump in their party HQ, despite pushing for a nationwide switch to the technology.A project to install the device at the eco-party's headquarters in central Berlin has taken three and a half years because of a variety of problems that include difficulties finding qualified tradesmen and a two-year wait for a drilling permit, Der Spiegel magazine reported.OK, so that's just a ha ha, gurgle sort of observation. Even though it has obvious implications for the current insistence that everyone in this country must have one immediately. But those planners are not done yet: Households have been saddled with three million faulty smart meters in a botched roll-out that is ballooning over budget, a report reveals today.It had to be done quickly, you see? But that's OK, it was really important and ministered by those planners so nothing could go wrong, could it? Rolls Royce minds and all that? But of course these are mere trivia. Except, well, no. Those first generation biofuels not only starved the poor they had higher emissions than fossil fuels. The idea that Drax burning North American woodchips is CO2 neutral is laughable. Although for a real bellyacher try the Germans again, who actually have torn down a wind farm to get at the cheap brown coal, the lignite, underneath.The connecting point here is that the planners aren't very good at planning. Therefore we shall have to stop using planners. This is entirely different from the logical points usually made about planning - that it's impossible to have the information, all that Hayek and Nobel Lecture stuff. Instead it's just the simple observation that our society has put the dullards into the planning offices. Best to keep them safe there and us out here safe from them by not using planning.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. The Science of Cities: Urban Ecology -- 2. Urban Science Partners: Citizens and Planners -- Part I. Ecology in Cities: Ecosystems -- 3. Urban Soils -- 4. Urban Hydrology -- 5. Urban Vegetation -- 6. Urban Wildlife -- 7. Urban Climate -- 8. Urban Biodiversity -- 9. Urban Ecosystem Services -- Part II. Ecology of Cities: Bionetworks -- 10. Novel Ecosystems -- 11. Green Infrastructure -- 12. Urban Green Spaces -- 13. Urban Structures

We present the first platform-independent evaluation method for Task and Motion Planning (TAMP). Previously point, various problems have been used to test individual planners for specific aspects of TAMP. However, no common set of metrics, formats, and problems have been accepted by the community. We propose a set of benchmark problems covering the challenging aspects of TAMP and a planner-independent specification format for these problems. Our objective is to better evaluate and compare TAMP planners, foster communication and progress within the field, and lay a foundation to better understand this class of planning problems. ; Swedish Knowledge Foundation (KKS) project "Semantic Robots". ; NSF grant IIS 1317849. ; NSF grant CCF-1514372. ; Spanish Government project DPI2016-80077-R. ; Spanish Government grant FPI 2015.

Conceiving urban plan making as practical judgment shifts theoretical attention from questions of belief to questions of meaning. How do we make urban plans that combine intelligent coordination with savvy communication to anticipate and cope with urban complexity? Consider adopting a pragmatic approach that relies on coherence to inform the appraisal, comparison and selection that accompany practical judgment. Plans compose the meaning and consequence of future actions. Pragmatic composition combines representation and interpretation to frame problems of urban complexity. Four orientations are described using plan examples: protocol, precedent, prototype and policy.