Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mahshid Nejati ¹
• Sahar Nedae Tousi ²

¹ PhD Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

² Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Following the crisis of confidence in the profession based on technical rationality, a gap between theory (explicit knowledge) and practice has emerged in the field of urban planning. The objective of this research, within the framework of a systematic review, is to identify and compare approaches to the relationship between knowledge and action of urban planners and to expand them in planning thought and action. For this purpose, through the PRISMA practice guide, 584 sources were obtained from the Scopus, Web of Science, and Irandoc databases by searching for keywords within the time range until the end of 2022 and then by reviewing their titles, abstracts, and full texts in order, 44 sources were selected for synthesis. Subsequently, using the tools VOSviewer, Scholar GPT, and Excel, bibliometric and integrative studies were conducted on the sources. In the integrative studies, after coding, four approaches were identified. The practice-oriented approach, by emphasizing tacit knowledge, does not recognize explicit knowledge in action and is almost opposed to the praxis-oriented approach. Between these two, the contingent and reflective approaches rely on explicit and tacit knowledge in inverse proportions. These approaches reflect the plurality of situation-based discourses and decision-making structures in planning thought and action.

Keywords

• Explicit Knowledge
• Tacit Knowledge
• Action
• Urban Planners
• Systematic Review

Main Subjects

• Urban and Regional Development Planning