| Description |
vii, 501 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Ashgate research companion |
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Ashgate research companion.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 9.Modulation of Singularities - A Complexity Approach to Planning Competitions / Joris E. Van Wezemael -- 10.Community Enterprises: Imagining and Enacting Alternatives to Capitalism / Jenny Cameron -- 11.Trouble with Nature: ̀Ecology as the New Opium for the Masses' / Erik Swyngedouw -- 12.Urbanity, (Neo)vitalism and Becoming / John Pløger -- 13.Necessary Dreaming: Uses of Utopia in Urban Planning / David Pinder -- pt. THREE CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES FOR SPATIAL PLANNING IN COMPLEXITY -- Introduction to Part Three / Jean Hillier -- 14.Governance and Planning: A Pragmatic Approach / Niraj Verma -- 15.Coping with the Irreducible Uncertainties of Planning: An Evolutionary Approach / Luca Bertolini -- 16.Cybernetic Spatial Planning: Steering, Managing or Just Letting Go? / Nikos Karadimitriou -- 17.Strategic Navigation in an Ocean of Theoretical and Practice Complexity / Jean Hillier |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES FROM PERSPECTIVES ON SPATIAL PLANNING PRACTICE -- Introduction to Part One / Patsy Healey -- 1.Governance, Space and Politics: Exploring the Governmentality of Planning / Ananya Roy -- 2.Informality and the Politics of Planning / Ananya Roy -- 3.Coexistence: Planning and the Challenge of Indigenous Rights / Gaim James Lunkapis -- 4.Problematizing Planning: Critical and Effective Genealogies / Margo Huxley -- 5.Is This How It Is, or Is This How It Is Here? Making Sense of Politics in Planning / Maarten Hajer -- 6.Role Conflict: Planners Torn Between Dialogical Ideals and Neo-liberal Realities / Tore Sager -- 7.Enhancing Creativity and Action Orientation in Planning / Louis Albrechts -- pt. TWO CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES FOR SPATIAL PLANNING THEORY -- Introduction to Part Two / Jean Hillier -- 8.Cities and Nations / Manuel DeLanda -- |
| Summary |
A key question is not so much what planning theory is, but what might planning theory do in times of uncertainty and complexity. An underlying rationale is that planning theory and practice are intrinsically connected. The Companion is presented in three linked parts: issues which arise from an interactive understanding of the relations between planning ideas and the political-institutional contexts in which such ideas are put to work; key concepts in current theorizing from mainly poststructuralist perspectives and what discussion on complexity may offer planning theory and practice. -- |
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At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or social crises - the raison d'etre of spatial planning faces significant conceptual and empirical challenges. -- |
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The Ashgate Research Companions are designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companions' editors bring together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field. --Book Jacket |
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This Companion presents a multidimensional collection of critical narratives of conceptual challenges for spatial planning. The authors draw on various disciplinary traditions and theoretical frames to explore different ways of conceptualizing spatial planning and the challenges it faces. Through problematizing planning itself, the values which underpin planning and theory-practice relations, contributions make visible the limits of established planning theories and illustrate how, by thinking about new issues, or about issues in new ways, spatial planning might be advanced both theoretically and practically. There cannot be definitive answers to the conceptual challenges posed, but the authors in this collection provoke critical questions and debates over important issues for spatial planning and its future. -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
City planning.
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Regional planning.
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| Author |
Healey, Patsy.
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Hillier, Jean.
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| LC no. |
2009045791 |
| ISBN |
9780754672548 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9780754690351 (ebook) |
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