What every planner should know about people

Abstract

When people encounter some new piece of technology or a new product, or even a new variation of an old one — toilets, telephones, higher education, computers, drugs, television, the pill — they not only think differently, but feel differently and act accordingly. Technology slowly alters their perceptions, expectations, motives, and adaptive strategies in systematic ways. The problem is determining what is happening to alter those strategies, how they are being altered, and how fast alteration is occurring.

Citation

Binstock, J. (1980), "What every planner should know about people", Planning Review, Vol. 8 No. 5, pp. 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb053923