Collaborative planning : shaping places in fragmented societies / Patsy Healey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Healey, Patsy.

Series:

Planning, environment, cities (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Planning, environment, cities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Regional planning.

Community development, Urban.

Physical Description:

xvi, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Contents:

Part I Towards an Institutionalist Account and Communicative Theory of Planning

1 Traditions of planning thought 7

The origins of planning 7

Three planning traditions 10

The interpretive, communicative turn in planning theory 28

2 An institutionalist approach to spatial change and environmental planning 31

The challenge 31

Beyond 'structure' and 'science' 35

Modernity and the postmodern 'turn' 38

Transforming modernity: Giddens and Habermas 43

An institutionalist approach 55

Cultural embeddedness 62

A normative viewpoint 68

3 Spatial planning systems and practices 72

Spatial planning: from regulating land use rights to managing spatial organisation 72

Spatial and environmental planning systems 75

Spatial and environmental planning as a social process 83

Part II The Changing Dynamics of Urban Regions

4 Everyday life and local environments 95

The relations of social life 95

People and households 99

Identities, networks and lifestyles 103

The power relations of social life 112

Social diversity and social polarisation 119

Community and everyday life 122

Social life and local environments 126

5 Local economies, land and property 131

Spatial planning and economic life 131

What is a local economy? 136

Local economies, land and property markets and planning regulation 144

Local economic development strategies and spatial planning 151

Land and property markets and land use regulation 156

Local governance and local economies: a pro-active role 160

6 Living in the natural world 164

The environmentalist challenge

Conceptions of the environment in spatial planning 169

Debates in contemporary environmental policy 175

The environmental debate and spatial planning 186

The transformative power of the new environmentalism 193

Part III Processes for Collaborative Planning

7 Planning and governance 205

Government and governance 205

Politics, policy and planning 211

Forms and styles of governance 219

Evolving forms of governance 231

The transformation of governance 239

8 Strategies, processes and plans 243

Planning as generating strategic conviction 243

Strategy-making as politics and technique 248

Strategy-making through inclusionary argumentation 263

Questions for the institutional design of strategy-making activity 268

From radical idealism to 'common sense' 281

9 Systemic institutional design for collaborative planning 284

Systemic framing and framing the instance 284

Approaches to systemic institutional design

The parameters of systemic institutional design for participative, democratic governance 288

Rights and duties 295

Criteria for redeeming challenges 304

Governance competences 306

Building institutional capacity through collaborative planning 310

10 Collaborative planning: a contested practice in evolution 315

The intentions of the book 317

The contributions of the book 321

Developments in 'institutionalist' therorising about governance 324

Emergent practices of collaborative governance 330

An evolving understanding of the planning project 336.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-361) and index.

ISBN:

1403949190

1403949204

OCLC:

61865199