Building Competences for Spatial Planners Methods Techniques for Performing Task

Building Competences for Spatial PlannersMethods and Techniques for Performing Tasks with Efficiency\nAuthor(s): Anastassios Perdicoulis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415594561, 978-0415594561\nSynopsis\nSpatial planning is a process. The focus of this book is on the sequence of key tasks that constitute the process and on special techniques that are suitable to conduct these tasks. Spatial planners require a number of skills to manage this process in an efficient manner, select the necessary tasks for each specific planning context, as well as the appropriate techniques for each task always considering the people with whom and for whom they plan.\n\nRather than recommending options, or recipes, this book stimulates critical thinking and questioning: What do we want to achieve? How can we do that? What options do we have? Which option is the best for our case? This book contains enough planning theory to dis]