Skills for Planning Practice
Published on 15. September 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-333-69072-7 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on the author's own extensive experience of planning practice at all levels, this major new text reflects on the skills needed to do the job and how these might be developed. Planning practice skills are divided into seven broad clusters which are introduced, analyzed, and then tested through self-assessment case studies and exercises.
Reviews / Votes
'Ted Kitchen is one of the outstanding British planners of his generation...It was therefore with some eagerness that I read his book Skills for Planning Practice, and I was not disappointed.' Vincent Goodstadt, Urban StudiesMore details
Series
Edition
2006
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
427 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-69072-7 (9780333690727)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-21292-3
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Ted Kitchen
Skills for Planning Practice
E-Book
09/2017
1st Edition
Red Globe Press
€46.79
Available for download
Ted Kitchen
Skills for Planning Practice
Book
09/2006
Red Globe Press
€146.58
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Person
TED KITCHEN is Professor of Planning and Urban Regeneration, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He previously worked for 24 years in planning practice ending up as Director of Planning and Environmental Health for Manchester City Council.
Content
Introduction.- Technical Skills.- Planning System and Process Skills.- Place Skills.- Customer Skills.- Personal Skills.- Organisational, Management and Political Context Skills.- Synoptic and Integrative Skills.- The Changing Planning Skills Debate.- Conclusions.