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1 Introduction—The rationale for the course: Why is it important to understand the difference between conventional theories and actual outcomes?

Hack, Gary. "Designing Cities and the Academy." Journal of the American Planning Association 81, no. 3  (2015): 221–9. (ahead-of-print)

Buy at Amazon Friedmann, John. "A Life in Planning." Chapter 7 in The Prospect of Cities. University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780816638840. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Hirschman, Albert O. Chapter 5 in A Propensity to Self-subversion. Harvard University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780674715585. [Preview with Google Books]
2 Overview of conventional theories of development, planning, and implementation

Rostow, W. W. "The Stages of Economic Growth." The Economic History Review 12, no. 1 (1959): 1–16.

Lewis, W. Arthur. "Measures for the Economic Development of Under-developed Countries." Journal of Farm Economics 33, no. 4 (1951): 585–7.

Buy at Amazon Meier, Gerald. "Introduction." In Pioneers in Development (A World Bank Research Publication). Edited by Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers. Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780195204797.

Rosenstein-Rodan, P. N. "Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-eastern Europe." The Economic Journal 53, no. 210/11 (1943): 202–11.

Weintraub, David. "International Approaches to Economic Development of Undeveloped Areas." The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 26, no. 3 (1948): 260–8.

Sutcliffe, Robert B. "Balanced and Unbalanced Growth." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 78, no. 4 (1964): 621–40.

3 One modernity or multiple modernities?

Mazlish, Bruce. "The Idea of Progress." Daedalus 92, no. 3 (1963): 447–61.

Buy at Amazon Scott, James C. "Authoritarian High Modernism." In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 87–102. ISBN: 9780300070163.

Buy at Amazon Ferguson, J. "Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy After Development." In Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. Duke University Press Books, 2005, pp. 166–81. ISBN: 9780822335238.

Eisenstadt, S. N. "Multiple Modernities." Daedalus 129, no. 1 (2000): 1–29.

Buy at Amazon Geertz, Clifford. "Modernities." In After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist. Harvard University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780674008724. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Inkeles, Alex, and David H. Smith. Chapter 2 in Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries. Harvard University Press, 1974. ISBN: 9780674063754.

4 Assessment of development and planning efforts: What has worked and what has not?

Buy at Amazon Hirschman, Albert O. "In Defense of Possibilism." In Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays. Harvard University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780674773035. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Tendler, Judith. "Introduction." In Good Government in the Tropics. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780801854521.

Buy at Amazon Hall, Peter, and Mark Tewdwr-Jones. "Planning, Planners, and Plans." In Urban and Regional Planning. Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 9780415566544. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Sen, Amartya. "Market, State, and Social Opportunity in Development." In Development as Freedom. Oxford Paperbacks, 2001. [Preview with Google Books]

5 Bottom-up versus Top-down development

Tendler, Judith. "What Ever Happened to Poverty Alleviation?" World development 17, no. 7 (1989): 1033–44.

Buy at Amazon Evans, Peter B., Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. Chapter 2 in Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780521313131. [Preview with Google books]

Buy at Amazon Robertson, A. F. Chapter 2 in People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development. Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780521319485.

Buy at Amazon Peattie, Lisa. "Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana." In Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana. University of Michigan Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780472080694.

6 Comprehensive versus incremental planning

Andrews, Matt, Lant Pritchett, et al. "Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)." World Development 51 (2013): 234–44. (Working Paper 299)

Altshuler, Alan. "The Goals of Comprehensive Planning." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 31, no. 3 (1965): 186–95.

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Medina, Eden. Chapter 7 in Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile. MIT Press, 2011. [Preview with Google Books]

Lindblom, Charles E. "The Science of "Muddling Through"." Public Administration Review 19, no. 2 (1959): 79–88.

7 Under what conditions do public sector institutions perform well?

Grindle, Merilee S., and Mary E. Hilderbrand. "Building Sustainable Capacity in the Public Sector: What can be Done?" Public Administration & Development 15, no. 5 (1995): 441–63.

Buy at Amazon Roll, Michael, ed. The Politics of Public Sector Performance: Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing Countries. Routledge, 2015. ISBN: 9781138956391.

Pires, Roberto R. C. "Beyond the Fear of Discretion: Flexibility, Performance, and Accountability in the Management of Regulatory Bureaucracies." Regulation & Governance 5, no. 1 (2011): 43–69.

Buy at Amazon Evans, Peter. "Development Strategies across the Public Private Divide." In State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development. Edited by Peter Evans. University of California International, 1997. ISBN: 9780877251941. (Research Series.)

8 Is politics a hindrance to, or essential for planning?

Buy at Amazon Hoch, Charles. What Planners Do: Power, Politics, and Persuasion. American Planning Association, 1995. ISBN: 9780918286918.

Buy at Amazon Krumholz, Norman. Chapter 14 in Making Equity Planning Work: Leadership in the Public Sector. Temple University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780877227007. [Preview with Google Books]

Natsios, Andrew. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."The Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development." (PDF) Center for Global Development, 2010.

Buy at Amazon Brooks, Michael P. "The Political Savvy Planner." In Planning Theory for Practitioners. APA Planners Press, 2002. ISBN: 9781884829598.

Sanyal, Bishwapriya. "Planning as Anticipation of Resistance." Planning Theory 4, no. 3 (2005): 225–45.

Buy at Amazon Grindle, Merilee S., and John W. Thomas. "Finding Room for Maneuver." In Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, pp. 182–94. ISBN: 9780801841569.

9 How do development professionals define what is ethical practice?

Sanyal, Bish. "Globalization, Ethical Compromise and Planning Theory." Planning Theory 1, no. 2 (2002): 116–23.

Buy at Amazon Bazerman, Max H., and Ann E. Tenbrunsel. Chapter 2 in Blind Spots: Why We Fail to do What's Right and What to do About it. Princeton University Press, 2011. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Giri, Anta Kumar, and Philip Quarles van Ufford, eds. Chapter 9 in A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities. Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 9780415276269. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Schwartz, Barry, and Kenneth Sharpe. Chapter 3 in Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to do the Right Thing. Riverhead Books, 2010. ISBN: 9781594487835. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis F. Thompson. The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands it and Campaigning Undermines it. Princeton University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780691160856. [Preview with Google books]

10 Rigidity versus flexibility

Jain, Pankaj S. "Managing Credit for the Rural Poor: Lessons from the Grameen Bank." World Development 24, no. 1 (1996): 79–89.

Buy at Amazon Tendler, Judith. Chapter 6 in Good Government in the Tropics. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780801854521.

Jain, Pankaj S. "Managing for Success: Lessons from Asian Development Programs." World Development 22, no. 9 (1994): 1363–77.

Brinkerhoff, Derick W., and Marcus D. Ingle. "Integrating Blueprint and Process: A Structured Flexibility Approach to Development Management." Public Administration and Development 9, no. 5 (1989): 487–503.

Graziano da Silva, Jose F., Mauro Eduardo Del Grossi, et al. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."Fome Zero (Zero Hunger Program)." (PDF - 1.7MB) Ministry of Agrarian Development (2013).

Buy at Amazon Levy, Santiago. Progress Against Poverty: Sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades Program. Brookings Institution, 2007. ISBN: 9780815752219.

11 Modes of evaluation: What is useful knowledge for practitioners?

Sabel, Charles. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development." (PDF - 4.8MB) 1993.

Buy at Amazon Smelser, Neil, and Richard Swedberg, eds. Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691121260.

Buy at Amazon Hirschman, Albert O. Chapter 5 in Development Projects Observed. Brookings Institution Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780815726425.

Buy at Amazon Schwartz, Barry, and Kenneth Sharpe. Chapter 6 in Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to do the Right Thing. Riverhead Books, 2010. ISBN: 9781594487835. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Polanyi, Michael. The Tacit Dimension. University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780226672984. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Hoffman, Lily M. The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning. State University of New York Press, 1989, pp. 191–204. ISBN: 9780887069482. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Friedmann, John. Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action. Princeton University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780691022680. [Preview with Google Books]

12 The social construction of learning institutions

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Sanyal, Bishwapriya, Lawrence J. Vale, and Christina Rosan. Chapter 12 in Planning Ideas That Matter: Livability, Territoriality, Governance, and Reflective Practice. MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262517683. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Argyris, Chris. Chapter 7 in Reasons and Rationalizations: The Limits to Organizational Knowledge. The New York Times, 2004. ISBN: 9780199286829.

Buy at Amazon Healey, Patsy. Chapter 9 in Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies. Palgrave, 1997. ISBN: 9780333495742. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Stiglitz, Joseph E., and Bruce C. Greenwald. Chapter 16 in Creating A Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress. Columbia University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780231152143.

13 Surety of purpose or humility of not knowing the answer?

Buy at Amazon Gardner, Howard. Chapter 9 in Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing our Own and Other People's Minds. Harvard Business Review Press, 2006. ISBN: 9781422103296. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Lear, Jonathan. Chapter 3 in Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul. Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780674455337. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Schon, Donald. The Reflexive Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Maurice Temple Smith Limited, 1983, pp. 287–354. ISBN: 9780851172316.

Buy at Amazon Forester, John. "Policy Analysis as Critical Listening." In The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780199269280. [Preview with Google Books]