Planning and politics : the Metro Toronto Transportation Plan Review

Abstract

and Politics gives the reader an accurate picture of what it is like to be involved in a major planning study on a day-to-day basis. It provides tentative guidelines for the professional or student planner and clarifies the planner's position in an increasingly politicized world. Unlike many transportation studies, this book's detailed, comprehensive, and objective observations provide a solid foundation of facts for formulating theory.Stressing the interaction of technical work with the political process, Juri Pill draws the conclusion in this study that must learn politics to be effective. A member of the staff of the Metro Toronto Plan Review from beginning to end (1972-1975), he proves his thesis by describing in detail the actual day-to-day activities of the MTTPR--its first stages, how the planning process became intimately involved with the political process, and the effects of this development on the MTTPR's credibility.Planning and Politics unfolds an extremely detailed case study of a single major transportation review to provide the professional reader and student with a valuable alternative to the usual theoretical planning study. It illustrates the actual problems encountered in a live planning situation so that planners and officials can anticipate and identify similar problems that will allow them to establish systems based on a pragmatic approach to transportation planning.Chapters in the book include Background, Phase I of the Review, The Scarborough Expressway Study, Phase II of the Review, Impact of the Review, Analysis of the Review Process, and Conclusions.The Metro Toronto Plan Review is the second post classic transportation study in North America. The first study, The Boston Planning Review, is discussed in Ralph Gakenheimer's book, Transportation Planning as Response to Controversy (MIT Press, 1975).Planning and Politics is in the MIT Press Series in Studies.

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