“I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.” WorldTakenCuttingDesignDevelopmentAuthorityEdgesPlanningEvolveAgencyReviewsImpressedUrbanSingaporeCutting EdgeGuidelines Author:Moshe Safdie
“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.” MenWorldGivingMeanRealStatesProblemInterestAbilityDecisionClassGroupsSpecialPolicyHe ManDevelopmentMethodPlanningPracticalsObjectivesRevolutionaryComplexityProgrammingBroadsReal WorldAdsMultipleLinearSpecial InterestsOptimalInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:George Dantzig
“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.” WorldHas BeensHomeGovernmentCareChoicesSimplePovertyHeardDevelopmentBirthSafeConflictInstitutionsComplicatedPlanningEmploymentHealth CareRebellionConsumptionIgnoredOrthodoxyBirth ControlFamily PlanningCairo Author:Anna Quindlen
“We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.” ThinkingNeedsPracticeDemocracyRevolutionDevelopmentDebtAidsPlanningReliefFree MarketFamily PlanningForeign Aid Author:William Easterly