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Title	An ethnography of the People's Planning Programme
Author	Bill, Roger Dyke
Description	Thesis (M.A, ) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland. 1974. Sociology
Date	1974
Pagination	various pagings : ill., plans, maps
Subject	People's Planning Program, (St. John's, N.L.); City planning--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's; St. John's (N.L.)
Degree	M.A.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of Sociology
Discipline	Sociology
Language	Eng
Spatial Coverage	Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's
Notes	Bibliography : leaves [109-113]
Abstract	The People's Planning Programme (PPP), an advocacy planning organization, operated in St, John's, Newfoundland for a sixteen month period during 1972 and 1973. It was involved in community action, it experimented with urban planning techniques, it served as a major opposition to specific municipal development proposals, and it evolved as a distinctive form of citizen's organization. -- The purpose of this thesis is to describe, in the context of a reconstruction of the career of the PPP, its experiences in community action, its experiments in planning technique, and the evolution of its organization as a response to an idealized composite of town planning, town planners, and the public bureaucracy. -- The method of study was participant observation. The design of the study was ex post facto in that the PPP as an event had concluded before it was applied as data for the purposes of this thesis. -- The data gathered was interpreted and analyzed in the context of a model of public decision making where town planning, town planners, and the public bureaucracy function to limit public control and public scrutiny of that policy making. Control and scrutiny of public planning policy is limited to l) those who can perceive and manipulate their universe in a rational and systematic manner, 2) move through the professional culture of town planners, and 3) move through the public bureaucracy.
Type	Text
Resource Type	Electronic resource or dissertation
Format	Image/jpg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	76005596
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
PDF File	(54.12 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/Bill_Roger.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	288173.cpd