The Routledge handbook of planning theory / edited by Michael Gunder, Ali Madanipour and Vanessa Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gunder, M. (Michael), editor.

Madanipour, Ali, editor.

Watson, Vanessa, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Regional planning.

Land use--Planning.

Land use.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory- Front Cover; The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Planning Theory: An Introduction; Aims of This Book; The Changing Landscape of Planning Theory; Theories of Planning Practice; Theories of Planning Meaning; Theories of Planning Framework; References; PART I: Contemporary Planning Practices; Chapter 2: Spatial Planning: The Promised Land or Rolled-Out Neoliberalism?; Introduction; Place Matters: The Ascendance of Spatial Planning

Theoretical Contexts of Spatial Planning and Their CritiquesNeoliberalisation of Spatial Planning; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Strategic Planning: Ontological and Epistemological Challenges; Introduction; Strategic Spatial Planning: History, Logic, Aims, Critique; Potential Critical Features Explaining the Strategic Nature of Planning; What Next?; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Growth Management Theory: From the Garden City to Smart Growth; A Brief History of Growth Management; Approaches to Managing Growth; Smart Growth as a Paradigm; Challenges to Smart Growth

The Future of Growth ManagementReferences; Chapter 5: Planning in the Anthropocene; Introduction: Framing the Conundrum; The Question of Urban 'Land': A Biophysical Systems Perspective; Cities as 'Dissipative Structures'; Are Cities Ecosystems?; The Eco-footprints of Cities: What Really Constitutes 'Urban' Land?; Evidence-based Planning for the Anthropocene; Growth or Development? The Need for New Economic Theory; Economics For the Anthropocene; Epilogue: Is H. Sapiens Fatally Flawed?; Notes; References; PART II: How Meaning/Values Are Constructed in Planning; Chapter 6: The Public Interest

Introduction: The Fall from Grace of the Idea of the Public InterestWhat Kind of Inexistence? First View, Divergentism; What Kind of Inexistence? Second View, Dialogical Proceduralism; What Kind of Inexistence? Third View, (Classical) Liberalism; What Kind of Inexistence? Fourth View, Value-Pluralism; Rethinking the Public Interest: First Point, Acceptable (and Unacceptable) Criticisms; Rethinking the Public Interest: Second Point, Viable (Nomocratic) Universalism; Final Remarks: The Ineliminability of the Concept of the Public Interest; References

Chapter 7: Rethinking Scholarship on Planning EthicsIntroduction; Conceptualising Planning's Dominant Focus on Normative Ethics; Turning Our 'Gaze' to Southern Epistemologies of Ethical Actions; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Communicative Planning; Core Ideas and Progress of Communicative Planning; Communicative Planning and Citizen Participation; The Planner Role; Legitimizing Communicative Planning; Debates and Critique; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 9: Neoliberal Planning; Pioneering; Normalizing; Established Tools and Policies; Crisis and Its Aftermath; Past the Political?

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 11, 2017).

ISBN:

9781317444862

1317444868

9781317444855

131744485X

OCLC:

1002185016

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.