California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
URP 337/337L Planning Public Infrastructure Spring
1999 (Urey)
Study questions for readings
for 14 April 1999
Terry Moore "Why allow planners to do what they do?"American
Institute of Planners Journal 43 (Oct. 1978), 387-98.
Vocabulary words: pecuniary, empirical, instransigence
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What is difference between a private good and a public good?
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Why are public goods
doomed to be undersupplied when provided through a pure free market?
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What is the tragedy of the commons?
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What is a prisoner's dilemma?
Play a prisoner's dilemma game,
at the serendip web site:
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/playground/pd.html
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How does Terry Moore use the existence of public
goods as a justification for planning?
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Moore says that "planning can be legitimated through
the courts or through "the development of mutual values for planners and
their clients." What strategies does he offer for the latter?
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Moore identifies some reasons why information is
a complicated public good. Explain.
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