Acting on ethics in city planning / Elizabeth Howe.

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Howe, Elizabeth, 1945-

Title & Author:

Acting on ethics in city planning / Elizabeth Howe.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 395 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-385) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Nature of Ethical Issues -- Ch. 3. Procedural Issues -- Ch. 4. The Public Interest -- Ch. 5. Planners: An Introduction -- Ch. 6. Planners' Roles -- Ch. 7. Planners' Approaches to Ethics -- Ch. 8. Influences on Ethical Values -- Ch. 9. A Framework for Evaluation -- Ch. 10. Acting on Difficult Choices -- Ch. 11. Action, Justification, and Effectiveness -- Ch. 12. Shaping Action on Ethics -- Ch. 13. Encouraging Ethical Action.
Also issued online.

Summary:

What do practicing planners do when confronted with ethical conflicts in their day-to-day work? How can the planning profession help planners make ethical decisions? Howe's answers to these questions are perceptive and revealing. In this insightful, lively, and compassionate book, Elizabeth Howe explores how planners define ethical issues and make ethical choices. She is not concerned with a distant or abstract ethics but rather with the actual ethical dilemmas planners face in everyday practice. This book is about real people making difficult choices in real situations. The cases Howe examines derive from nearly 150 hours of personal interviews with 96 professional planners, and responses to follow-up questionnaires. This book should be read by every practicing planner wondering how others deal with the workaday world. It is required reading for every student seeking a glimpse of the profession outside the classroom. And it will inform and reward all those concerned with the necessity of acting on ethics in an imperfect world.

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ISBN:

0882851470
9780882851471

Subject:

City planning Moral and ethical aspects.
City planners Professional ethics United States.
Professional ethics United States.
Urbanisme Aspect moral.
Urbanistes Déontologie États-Unis.
Déontologie professionnelle États-Unis.
City planners Professional ethics
Professional ethics
Berufsethik
Stadtplanung
United States

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289191
Call No.: HT167 .H69 1994
Status: Available

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