THE ROLES OF INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS IN URBAN-SYSTEMS PLANNING

Abstract

Our new understandings of urban systems and our changing concepts of urban problems have not yet been matched by satisfactory urban planning processes. In response to the growing demand for good information that might support rational developmental decisions, “intelligence centers” are proposed, operating with an interim programming strategy. These centers would serve the multiplicity of groups in the urban areas, supplying improved inventories and forecasts; and they would serve governmental investors by designing targets, programs, and strategics for public action. They would inevitably be engaged in politics and action, but they would bring the scientific morality into urban affairs—a new ingredient in the urban political scene. They are proposed as the effective city planning agencies for this era of flux.