Special Subject: Urban Studies and Planning

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.

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.

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

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

Tendler, Judith. “Introduction.” In Good Government in the Tropics . The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780801854521.

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

Peattie, Lisa. “Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana.” In Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana . University of Michigan Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780472080694.

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

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.)

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

Brooks, Michael P. “The Political Savvy Planner.” In Planning Theory for Practitioners . APA Planners Press, 2002. ISBN: 9781884829598.

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.

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

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

Sabel, Charles. “Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development.” 1993.

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

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

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

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.

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