Urban transportation planning is discussed as an object lesson demonstrating both the limits of economic reasoning as a guide to public policy, and the degree to which profes sional planners can conventionalize subjective judgments which are then insinuated into policy advice under the guise of hard-nosed realism. The implication is that our choice from among professional experts is intrinsically a political one.
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