11.701 Introduction to Planning and Institutional Processes in Developing Countries, Fall 2005
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Author(s)
Sanyal, Bishwapriya
Alternative Title
Introduction to Planning and Institutional Processes in Developing Countries
Date Issued
December 2005
Abstract
This introductory course is structured to cultivate the key sensibilities necessary for effective planning practice in newly industrializing countries. The word "sensibility" refers to an awareness of key developmental issues, interdependent causalities, and anticipated as well as unanticipated consequences of social action which mark most planning efforts. In cultivating such sensibilities, this course will use examples from varying institutional settings, ranging from the local to the international levels, and probe how the particularities of each setting call for an awareness of particular institutional opportunities and constraints that planners need to account for when devising planning strategies.
Subjects
developing-country governments
international organizations
NGOs
economies of scale
diseconomies of scale
international development planning
externality
historical advances in developing and developing countries
interaction between planners and institutions
decentralization
provision of low-cost housing
new-town development
progress
anti-planning arguments
state-centered planning
social control
bureaucracies
good governance
market institutions
collective action
decision making
political savvy
legal sensibility
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History Section
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