Some Integrative Topics of the New Planning Discipline

Abstract

In Chaps. 2 and 3, while describing some research fields aimed at an integrated approach to planning, and fromthere towards the foundation of a unitary and integrated corpus of methods, knowledge, and know-how, it has been pointed out that some research fields are still, necessarily, separated from the nature of traditional disciplines, and from the object itself of their researches and applications. There were envisaged some research integrative topics, fromwhich, given their multi-disciplinary character, (even if still not having found a precise definition and location in a new, integrated methodology), it is believed that theory of planning will receive its most interesting drive.