Preface	5
	Contents	9
	1. PlanningTheory: Reconstruction or Requiem?	12
	... A Certain Uneasiness about PlanningTheory”	12
	... HaveWe Improved the Clarity of Planning Methodology?	13
	... What Are the Reasons for the Deceiving Development of PlanningTheory?	15
	... PlanningTheory: General or Not?	22
	... A Vade-Mecum for Good Planners’ Professional Relations?	23
	... Deontology and Epistemology of the Profession	25
	2. In Search of Integration: The Past Negative Experience	27
	... Expectations and Results from the Integration of the Planning Sciences	27
	... The Bad Course of the Debate	31
	... Is a Positive Reconstruction of PlanningTheory Possible?	32
	3 Towards a New Uni.ed Discipline of Planning	34
	... The Fields of Activity	34
	... TheMerits and Limits of the Trans-Disciplinary Approach	43
	... Positivist”- Type Decision-Making Analysis	44
	... Social Reality is Subjective Reality	45
	... Voluntarist”- Type Decision-Making Analysis	46
	... A Defect of Approach or One of Further Elaboration?	47
	4. The First Routes of the New Discipline	50
	... Schemes of Procedure for the Preparation of Plans and the Construction of Suitable Accounting Frames”	51
	... Schemes of the Systemic Interrelationship Between Plan Levels	52
	... Institutional Procedures of Plan Bargaining” and Preference Consultation Systems	53
	... Information Systems for Planning and TheirManagement	54
	... Monitoring and Plan Evaluation Systems	55
	5. Some Integrative Topics of the New Planning Discipline	56
	... Integration Between (Conventional) Economic Accounting Systems and Social Accounting Systems	57
	... Integration Between Socio-Economic Planning ( and Related Accounting) and Technological Forecasting	58
	... Integration Between Socio-Economic Planning ( and Related Accounting) and Physical ( or Territorial or Environmental) Planning	59
	... Integration Between Socio-Economic (and Physical) Planning and Institutional Organisation and Negotiation	59
	... Integration Between Socio-Economic Planning and the Institutional Systemand Design	60
	... Concluding Remarks: The Planological Approach”	61
	6. Planning Science: Basic Postulates and Logical Framework for Reference	63
	... From Planning Theory” to Planning Science”	63
	... A reference Framework for Planning Science: Some Essential Postulates	64
	... The Planning Process	70
	... The Planning System	71
	... Conclusions	80
	7. The Future of National Planning Systems: Some New Steps	81
	... The Concept of National Planning”	81
	... National Planning in a Systemic Vision	82
	... What Opportunities Exist for the Systemic- Type Development of National Planning?	83
	... The American Federal Strategic Planning: Its E . ects on the National Planning Future	87
	... From Strategic Planning to National Economic Programming: A Necessary Step Towards Systemic Planning	88
	... Toward a Scienti. c and Professional Approach to the Systemic Planning	89
	8. Planning and Plan Evaluation: SomeWell- Known and Often Neglected Pitfalls	91
	... Logical Indeterminateness: Evaluation” vs Values”	92
	... Systemic Disconnectedness	96
	... Strategic Insubordination	97
	... Self-Referencing	98
	... Sub-Optimization	100
	... Bounded Rationality	100
	9. Conclusions	105
	... A question of Prepositions	105
	... A Question of Adjectivization”	106
	... The Rational” Approach Case and the Communicative” or Collaborative” One	108
	... The Diagonal of Planology”	110
	Bibliographical References	113
	Authors Index	124
	Analytical Index	127