
A Future for Planning
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A Future for Planning is an accessible, wide-ranging book that considers how planning practice and policy have been constrained by short-termism, as well as by a familiar lack of spatial thinking in policy, in response to major social, economic and environmental challenges. It suggests that failures in planning often represent failures to anticipate and shape the future which go well beyond planning systems and practices; rather our failure to plan for the longer-term relates to wider issues in policy-making and governance.
This book traces the rise and fall of long-term planning over the past 80 years or so, but also sets out how planning can take responsibility for twenty-first century challenges. It provides examples of successes and failures of longer-term planning from around the world. In short, the book argues that we need to put time back into planning, and develop forms of planning which serve to promote the sustainability and wellbeing of future generations.
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"This book sets out an important agenda for the future of planning - spearheading long-term responses to the biggest challenges faced by our societies. Planners need to reassert their role as public advocates and influencers at the top table of local and national government, as well as reflecting the communities they serve. A crucial call-to-action for today's, and tomorrow's, planners." -Victoria Hills MRTPI, Chief Executive, Royal Town Planning Institute, UK"We face massive planning challenges such as urban growth and climate change on the one hand and yet a denial of the urgency to forward plan on the other. In promoting 'radical optimism', this book is a timely reminder to planners to 'believe again in our ability to shape the future'." -Barbara Norman, Professor of Design & Built Environment, University of Canberra, Australia
"A Future for Planning is a long-overdue call-to-arms for politicians, governments, environmentalists, social campaigners and planners to reassert themselves; it shows what can be achieved through a proactive planning regime that challenges hegemonic economic and political forces; and acts as a rallying-call to stand up against the dispossessed, with the marginalised and the polarised and use planning as a new political and democratic weapon." -Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Professor of Town Planning, Newcastle University, and Director of Newcastle City Futures, UK
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