A Planners’ Planner: John Friedmann’s Quest for a General Theory of Planning

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Acknowledgments

I am most grateful for the extensive research assistance provided by my doctoral student, Babak Manouchehrifar, who had known John Friedmann from his time as a student in Iran and read most of Friedmann’s published work with much care. I would also like to thank three anonymous reviewers and the following colleagues for their thoughtful comments: Michael Storper, Martin Wachs, Faranak Miraftab, Pasty Healey, Leonie Sandercock, John Forester, Charles Hoch, Michael Douglass, Lawrence Susskind, Eugenie Birch, Haripriya Rangan, Tali Hatuka, Gabriella Carolini, Oren Yiftachel, Klaus Kunzmann, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris.

Notes

1. See, for instance, a book of essays from Friedmann’s students (­Rangan, Ng, & Porter, 2017).

2. For a review of Perloff’s work, see The Art of Planning (Perloff, 1985a). I had the opportunity to work as Perloff’s research assistant for the publication of this book, which was published after Perloff’s death.

3. Thinking about national planning was unheard of in the United States because of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the nation that invented the 5-year national plan.

4. Among other faculty members at UCLA were Michael Storper, Martin Wachs, Leland Burns, Jackie Leavitt, Susanna Hecht, Rebecca Morales, Donald Shoup, Barclay Hudson, and Eugene Grigsby.

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Bish Sanyal

Bish Sanyal ([email protected]) is a Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning and Director of the Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies/Humphrey Fellows Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.