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Planning and Implementation in the Informal SectorEvidence from Oaxaca, Mexico
Author(s) -
Winter Mary,
Morris Earl W.,
Murphy Arthur D.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1990.4.2.131
Subject(s) - business , adaptation (eye) , informal sector , developing country , environmental planning , economic growth , geography , economics , psychology , neuroscience
Case Studies of Women in the informal sector in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, lead to the idea that individuals in the informal sector utilize planning strategies appropriate to their situation. Regulative, goal‐centered, or morphostatic planning strategies—strategies focused on maintaining the system in its current state of equilibrium—are appropriate when a market has been developed and the desire is to maintain it under current conditions. Generative, resource‐ centered or morphogenic planning strategies—strategies that promote change in the current equilibrium—are used when markets are being developed, or when there are changes in the environment that require adjustment or adaptation, [women, planning, Oaxaca, Mexico]