Ethics in Planning

Martin Wachs

ISBN 10: 0882851039 / ISBN 13: 9780882851037

Published by Routledge, 1985

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This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. This copy is the First Edition THUS of the published work. This copy is the Third Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ethics in Planning
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882851039
• ISBN 13: 9780882851037
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1.35 pounds

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Synopsis

Some planners limit discussions of ethics to simple, though important, questions about the propriety of their daily activities. This approach to ethics restricts discussion of professional ethics to the propriety of everyday social and professional relationships. It ignores the broader ethical content of planning practice, methods, and policies. While narrow definitions of ethical behavior can easily preoccupy public officials and professional associations, they divert attention from more profound moral issues.Martin Wachs argues that ethical issues are implicit in nearly all planning decisions. For illustrative and educational reasons, it is useful to divide ethics in planning into four distinct categories. The first category includes the moral implications of bureaucratic practices and rules of behavior regarding clients and supervisors. The second category includes ethical judgments which planners make in exercising their "administrative discretion." More complex, and represented by a third category, are the moral implications of methods and the ethical content of criteria built into planning techniques and models. The final type represents the basic choices which society makes - those inherent in the consideration of major policy alternatives.Ethics in Planning contains a variety of representative papers to capture the current state of thinking. This book will be important as a text for survey classes in professional ethics given by university planning programs. It should also supplement short courses in planning ethics for practicing professionals and provide source materials for discussions of planning ethics sponsored by local chapters of the American Planning Association and similar organizations. It gathers together exemplary and critical works, thus it will also interest individual planners in a field that only continues to grow in recognition and importance.

About the Author

Martin Wachs