{"pk":3347,"title":"Neighborhood, City, or Region: Deconstructing Scale in Planning Frames","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Plans usually try to address problems at a certain scale— neighborhood, city, region, or beyond. The field of planning has not engaged in geography’s extensive debates on scale, perhaps since the relevance to planning has not been apparent. I argue planning should attend to scale, based on the literature that describes frames. Frames powerfully direct attention to some problems and solutions, while overlooking others. I illustrate how scale can be part of planning problem definition and solutions with qualitative analysis of a regional transportation plan from the San Francisco Bay Area. The plan contains two distinct, scaled frames: one addresses mobility and economic vitality at the regional scale and the other concerns itself with accessibility from a neighborhood perspective. I call for critical reflection on the use of scale to help the field of planning see problems and possibilities in new ways.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Scale, planning theory, metropolitan transportation, regional planning, community development"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77w645rx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kate","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lowe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cornell University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-01-29T18:02:04-05:00","date_accepted":"2012-01-29T18:02:04-05:00","date_published":"2011-01-29T03:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3347/galley/2116/download/"}]}