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Introduction
No full textThe contributions in this section explore, broadly speaking, varying dimensions of governance processes that bring about change in conformity with new global objectives. The projects utilize different tools to design their interventions to ensure success in achieving their objectives while also providing a means to assess how well the objectives are being realized. In addition to analyzing the language in the plans using the word frequency method, the study utilizes a new research approach that focuses on the role of the local leaders in prioritizing environmental concerns depending upon performance factors such as duration in office, education, age and working experience. The model was developed from research on food systems planning in five communities in British Columbia involving official public stakeholders and planning staff and recognizing what was necessary for the planners to realize a change in a non-crisis situation.</p
Introduction
No full textFrom humble beginnings at the start of the twentieth century, planning education programs have seen an impressive development and expansion. One hundred years on, there are more than 600 planning education programs offered in about half of the world’s countries. As the planning profession is strongly influenced by national planning culture, urbanization trends, and socio-economic milieus, requisite education programs and curricula exhibit a considerable variation of content and format. Despite growing international exchanges amongst academics, planning education and its development remains still poorly understood from a global perspective. Building on the past quantitatively oriented inventories of the education provision for planners, this book reviews the emergence and evolution of planning education curricula through selected case studies and a comparative, longitudinal lens. This introductory chapter elaborates the author’s motivation and provides an overview of the volume’s structure consisting of three parts: “Beginnings”, “Emerging Global Movement”, and “Charting Future Trends.”</p
Conclusions
No full textThis concluding chapter summarizes insights from the selected national and regional case studies on the development and change of planning education. Establishing education programs, which are independently recognized, has been a slow process which is ongoing. In parallel, the threat of program closures remains despite the widespread recognition by international bodies such as UN-Habitat of the field’s contributions to making cities sustainable and liveable. The review also revealed that despite nation-specific professional requirements, common pedagogies and distinctive profiles of education programs are emerging. In order to progress and secure the future of planning education programs, we recommend that academics and planners (a) re-engage in espousing the value of planning to the general public, (b) further develop interdisciplinary competencies—a major strength of the field, and (c) remain adaptive.</p
Envisioning the Future of Planning and Planning Education
No full textSeeking to chart future trends, this chapter examines historical aspects in the discipline’s development, practitioners’ viewpoints, opinions from planning educators, and contributions from this forward looking Part of the book to develop and substantiate a vision of future planning curricula and educational approaches. While results from a survey of leading planning educators broadly reconfirm stalwart values of the planning field (“the pillars of planning”), some suggestions were posited in regards to more explicit integration of education for post-sustainability, resilience, and ecosystems concepts. Furthermore, interdisciplinary, diversity, pluralism, and the fields’ long-standing experience of participatory working should be turned into a virtue to bolsters the field’s academic standing given trajectories that promote university-community engagement, partnership and collaborative working with industry, government and society.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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