城市和区域规划（原著第五版）

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• The establishment of green belts around British cities after the Second World War involved certain sacrifices on the part of those who were thereby housed farther away from their jobs in the cities, while the majority of the urban populations of that time were unable to enjoy any benefits because they lacked the cars to make excursions into the protected countryside; the true benefits will probably be experienced by the next generation, who will use cars to travel out to new country parks established in the green belts long after they were designated. Here, planners may with justification claim that by their intervention they are guarding the interests of posterity, including generations yet unborn. But if fundamental values change from one generation to another – if, for instance, each... (查看原文)

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• Planning in practice, however well managed, is therefore a long way from the tidy sequences of the theorists. It involves the basic difficulty, even impossibility, of predicting future events; the interaction of decisions made in different policy spheres; conflicts of values which cannot be fully resolved by rational decision or by calculation; the clash of organised pressure groups and the defence of vested interests; and the inevitable confusions that arise from the complex interrelationships between decisions at different levels and at different scales, at different points in time. The cybernetic or systems view of planning is a condition towards which planners aim; it will never become complete reality. (查看原文)

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