ترجمه آماده – نمونه ای جدید  (نوپدید) از تئوری برنامه ریزی: عمل متقابل

The long-bemoaned gap between theory and practice in planning is closing as a new type of planning theorist is beginning to dominate the field. These theorists make the gap complaint moot because they take practice as the raw material of their inquiry. In this they differ from their predecessors, who did primarily armchair theorizing and systematic thinking about planning. These new theorists pursue the questions and puzzles that arise in their study of practice, rather than those which emerge from thinking about how planning could or should be. These new planning scholars do grounded theorizing based on richly interpretive study of practice. Their purpose is, on the one hand, to document what planners do and, on the other, to reflect critically on that practice. They apply intellectual lenses that are new to planning to illuminate and critique what they see. They see planning as an interactive, communicative activity and depict planners as deeply embedded in the fabric of community, politics, and public decisionmaking. Their work has gained the attention of both planning academics and practicing planners because it is accessible and interesting. It does not have bottom-line prescriptions or simple models for how to proceed, but it has helped students and academics to see planning, and has helped planners to see themselves.