Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Part One: Paradigms in Social Science: Positivism and its 'Discontent': Positivism; Relativism and Postmodernism; Phenomenology and Hermeneutics; (Dialectical) Structuralism: Piaget's Structuralism; Giddens' Structuration Theory; Burke's So Chapter 5 Part Two: Research Under Three Paradigms: Positivist Research: The Time Budget Study: The Time Budget Perspective; The Time Budget Perspective in Relation to Other Urban and Regional Efforts; Time Budget Research and Public Policy; Time Budget Re Chapter 6 Part Three: Planning Theory and Social Reality at the Turn of the Century: Social Structures at the Turn of the Century: Objective Reality at the Run of the Century; Subjective Reality at the Turn of the Century; Planning Theory at the Turn of Chapter 7 Part Four: Towards a Humanistic Theory of Planning: Creating a Better Possible Future: The Socio-dramatic Dimension of Planning: Introduction; The Many Faces of Planning; Planning Is, In Effect, A Concern for the Future; Planners are 'Inside' the Chapter 8 Epilogue Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Author Index Chapter 11 Subject Index

About the Author

Gerald A. Gutenschwager is Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri and Research Fellow in the Department of Regional Planning and Development, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. He earned his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina in 1969.