Why Plan?
Theory for Practitioners
Published on 31. October 2019
160 pages
978-1-84822-279-3 (ISBN)
Description
Why do we plan? Who decides how and where we plan and what we should value? How do theories and ideologies filter down into real policies and plans which affect our lives?
Written in a deliberately practitioner-friendly manner, this useful guide answers these questions and reveals planning theories to be simply new ideas that can help one see the world differently. Thinking about them enables us to take a step back to appreciate the wider context. The guide discusses the value of planning, how rationales for planning have changed, and whether we have too much, too little, or just the wrong kind of planning.
It then sets out 25 key concepts central to professional practice, ranging from participation and complexity to post-politics and state theory, from risk and resilience to governmentality, from assemblage to ecosystems and sustainability.
Written in a deliberately practitioner-friendly manner, this useful guide answers these questions and reveals planning theories to be simply new ideas that can help one see the world differently. Thinking about them enables us to take a step back to appreciate the wider context. The guide discusses the value of planning, how rationales for planning have changed, and whether we have too much, too little, or just the wrong kind of planning.
It then sets out 25 key concepts central to professional practice, ranging from participation and complexity to post-politics and state theory, from risk and resilience to governmentality, from assemblage to ecosystems and sustainability.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations; 8 Illustrations, black and white
File size
1,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-279-3 (9781848222793)
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11/2019
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
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Persons
Graham Haughton is Professor of Urban Planning at the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester.
Iain White is Professor of Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Prior to this he was the Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology at the University of Manchester, UK.
Iain White is Professor of Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Prior to this he was the Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology at the University of Manchester, UK.
Content
Part A: Preliminaries. Preface; Setting the Scene: why plan, why theory?
Part B: Theories. Urban Entrepreneurialism; Neoliberalism; Marxism; Postcolonial Urbanism, Informality and Insurgent Planning; Policy Mobilities; Territorial and Relational Geographies; Soft Spaces; Postpolitics; Governance, the State and State Rescaling; Governmentality; Power; Environmental and Social Justice; Gender and Intersectionality; Participation; Nudging; Transitions; Assemblages; Science and Technology Studies; Wickedness and Complexity; Risk and Uncertainty; Resilience; Sustainability: Part C: Partings. Conclusion; Glossary
Part B: Theories. Urban Entrepreneurialism; Neoliberalism; Marxism; Postcolonial Urbanism, Informality and Insurgent Planning; Policy Mobilities; Territorial and Relational Geographies; Soft Spaces; Postpolitics; Governance, the State and State Rescaling; Governmentality; Power; Environmental and Social Justice; Gender and Intersectionality; Participation; Nudging; Transitions; Assemblages; Science and Technology Studies; Wickedness and Complexity; Risk and Uncertainty; Resilience; Sustainability: Part C: Partings. Conclusion; Glossary
