Planning Review: Volume 4 Issue 6
Table of contents
The Cornucopia myth and other Canadian problems
John J. ShepherdAlthough profound differences of opinion occur in our society, one of the things that all Canadians do enjoy is the adherence to a popular mythology which embraces the following…
Planning for electricity to avoid a shock
Dwight H. SwansonTwo findings of a recent study help clarify the challenge the electric industry is facing. First, our economic growth over the next twenty‐five years is likely to be constrained…
The paradoxical results of corporate conflict
H.J. ShapiroThe prevailing view of modern theorists is that conflict is increasingly perceived as legitimate, inevitable, and even desirable under certain organizational and environmental…
Beachcombing for a definition of affluence at the Ebb Tide of expectation
Milton LeontiadesDuring the 1960s the phrase “affluent society” seemed an appropriate sobriquet to describe the national mood. It reflected expectations of crossing the threshold into a new era of…
Will flirting with no‐growth lead to breach of promises?
Jib Fowles“A mad hatter's tea party” is the way one reporter describe the October 1975 Limits to Growth Conference. In his view something thoroughly silly was going on at that meeting in…
The state of the art of planning models
Thomas H. NaylorOn October 9–10, 1975, representatives from approximately 75 companies in the United States, Canada, and Mexico attended a symposium in New Orleans entitled “The Future of…