- John Friedman
John Friedman is one of the pioneering urban theorists of the late twentieth century. He founded the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at
UCLA in the late 1960. He is famous for his analysis of world city formation and theWorld City Theory .In "Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action" (1987) Friedman promoted a radical planning model based on “decolonization”, “democratization”, “self-empowerment” and “reaching out”. Friedman described this model as an “agropolitan development” paradigm, emphasising the re-localisation of
primary production andmanufacture . In “Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning" (1993) he further promoted the urgency of decentralizing planning, advocating a planning paradigm that is normative, innovative, political, transactive and based on a Social learning approach to knowledge and policy.References
* [http://ius.uwinnipeg.ca/WIRA/Aberley%20Radical%20Planning%20Outline.doc A Short Introduction to Radical Planning Theory and Practice] , Doug Aberley Ph.D. MCIP, Winnipeg Inner City Research Alliance Summer Institute, June 2003
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