Volume 10, Issue 1 pp. 125-153
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The Crisis of Transition: A Critique of Strategies of Crisis Management

John Friedmann

John Friedmann

John Friedmann is Professor of Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. His most recent book is Territory and Function: the Evolution of Regional Planning, co-authored with Clyde Weaver (London, 1978). A forthcoming book, The Good Society: an Introduction to Radical Practice is in press at MIT. The present essay is part of a larger effort to re-orient development policy in agrarian market societies along ‘agropolitan’ lines. These ideas have been most recently formulated in a long essay. The Active Community: Towards a Political-Territorial Framework for Rural Development in Asia ‘ which will apear in the proceedings of a conference on ‘The Rural-Urban Transformation’ which was held at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development in Nagoya, Japan, in November 1978.

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First published: January 1979
Citations: 6
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