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Rationality

Rationality. Palmanova: Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572-1618. Rationality of the City. City vs. nature The city as moral order and confinement (Foucault 1961: Histoire de la Folie)

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Rationality

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  1. Rationality Palmanova: Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572-1618.

  2. Rationality of the City • City vs. nature • The city as moral order and confinement (Foucault 1961: Histoire de la Folie) • The city as the area of the word, the work and reason (logos, opus) vs. bestiality of nature (Foucault, Derrida) • The city as a rational Utopia (the garden city, Owen’s ”Village of Harmony and Cooperation)

  3. Owen: Village of Harmony and Cooperation 1817

  4. Rational-comprehensiveplanning • Martin Meyerson & Edward Banfield: Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest 1955. • Based on the idea that individual conflicts can be rationally solved by the community • The political forms of cooperation, conflict, compromise and dictation

  5. Rationaldecisionmaking • The decisionmakerdeliberatesabout the relevantoptions • He/sheidentifgiestheirconsequenses • He/shechooses the onethatmaximizes the expectedutility of the community) (Herbert Simon: AdministrativeBehavior 1947, TalcottParsons: The Structure of Social Action 1937)

  6. RationalPlanning • Analysis of the situation • Definiton of the objectives and goals • Design of the action alternatives • Comparativeanalysis of the consequencies • Foreseen and unforeseen • Soughteffects and side-effects • Costs and benefits

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