Critical Planning and Design : Roots, Pathways, and Frames / edited by Camilla Perrone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perrone, Camilla, editor.

Series:

The Urban Book Series, 2365-7588

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography.

Cities and towns--History.

Cities and towns.

Sociology, Urban.

Political science.

Urban History.

Urban Sociology.

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Geography.

Urban History.

Urban Sociology.

Political Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.

Summary:

The book interprets and recombines, within a subjective trajectory, some roots, pathways and conceptual frames of the planning thought that worked either as dissenting imaginations or generative source to critically question the modernist epistemologies. ‘Critical planning and design’ is presented in this book as a field of research inspired by critical urban theory and developed along with ideas and theories that prove to be radical, alternative, dialectical to the mainstream history of planning. In this book, scholars present what they consider as the most important books in the field of planning, public policy and design. They have been asked to write about a book and its author, in their preferred manner. This freedom allowed passionate and original contributions. Three main threads - the three parts of the book - shape the choices of the authors. The first concerns the reconstruction of some genealogical roots of planning (including Cerdà, Yona Friedman, Alberto Magnaghi, and Ian McHarg). The second thread groups the authors who dialogue with contemporary protagonists of the planning debate (including John Friedmann, Leonie Sandercock, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, Tom Sievert, and Patzy Healey). The third thread includes authors who dig into relevant writings in social and philosophical sciences (including Max Weber, Charles Lindblom, Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Georges Didi-Huberman, Robert Nozick, Pand hilip K Dick). The book is addressed to researchers of planning and urban studies, who value the critical re-reading of some fundamental books. Including thoughtful and critical arguments on influential thinkers of the past two centuries, the book will enable students, scholars and researchers of planning, design, political science, geographical, environmental, and urban studies to better understand the socio-spatial and ecological transformations under the contemporary transition while relying on a “usable past”. The book is also addressed to a wider audience of readers interested in the problems of the city and space.

Contents:

Introduction: Critical planning and design: Walking through roots and dissenting imaginations

Part 1: Roots

Giancarlo Paba’s trilogy of Luoghi comuni (Common Places, 1998), Movimenti urbani (Urban Movements, 2003), Corpi urbani (Urban Bodies, 2010): Influential Italian ‘critical planning’ thinking

Ildefonso Cerdà, Teoría General de la Urbanización, 1867: An innovative approach

L’Ordine politico della Comunità (The Political Order of Community) 2014: Concrete community and territorial principle in Adriano Olivetti’s thought

All the layers of an ecological commitment at the frontier: Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969

L' Architecture de survie (1978) is back talking to EU cities in crisis: The provocative message by Yona Friedman as a key for the present and future urban agenda

Part 2: Planning pathways

John Friedmann, The Good Society (1979): Panning pathways for a just society

David Harvey’s Urbanization of Capital (1985): Why it helped me so much

A place in the world? Places, Cultures and Globalization, 1995. Doreen Massey’s lessons: Is the world really shrinking or is the geography of the world teaching us openness and diversity?

Patsy Healey and Collaborative Planning (2005): Re-thinking democracy in the ‘reasoning in public’ arena

Utopian tension: Sandercock’s inspiring journey “Towards Cosmopolis” (1998)

Zwischenstadt / Inbetween city. Thomas Sieverts, Cities Without Cities: An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt, 2004

Part 3: Conceptual frames

Inquiry and change: The troubled attempt to understand and shape society, 1990: The radical contribution of Charles E. Lindblom’s self-guiding society and probing volitions

Rediscussing Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia, 1974

Property titles to land and issues of distributive justice

Blade Runner, 1982. Do Androids dream of electric sheep?- Philip K Dick’s science fiction and Maschinenmenschen in Metropolis

Max Weber, Die Stadt (1922), English edition, Max Weber, The City, edited and traslated by Don Martindale and Gertrude Neuwirth, The Free Press, 1958

Antonio Gramsci and the prison notebooks

Le droit à la ville, 1968: Reading Lefebvre’s the right to the city in planning perspective

The trouble with Henri: The production of urban space – from theory to research

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille Plateaux, 1980: "The good use of philosophy"

Georges Didi-Huberman, La survivance des lucioles (2009). The thickness of time: going beyond the surface of the present to understand contemporary territories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Perrone, Camilla Critical Planning and Design

ISBN:

9783030931070