An Introduction to Some Papers on Urban Planning, Information, Goals and Implementation

The papers which follow have been assembled from two sources: the ones by Dr. Branch and by Professors Eastman and Kortanek were submissions to Management Science; the others formed one part of a program organized by Ezra Glaser for the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 1969 meetings in Boston. As vice president for AAAS' statistics section, Mr. Glaser had organized an all-day session on “Statistics, Governments and the Analysis of Social Problems.”