Planning in the Public Domain From Knowledge to Action / John Friedmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedmann, John Rembert Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning.

Planning.

public spaces.

comprehensive plans (reports).

openbare ruimte.

ruimtelijke ordening.

Environmental protection--Planning.

Environmental protection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1987.

Summary:

John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice. Three of these--social reform, policy analysis, and social learning--are primarily concerned with public management. The fourth, social mobilization, draws on utopianism, anarchism, historical materialism, and other radical thought and looks to the structural transformation of society "from below." After developing a basic vocabulary in Part One, the author proceeds in Part Two to a critical history of each of the four planning traditions. The story begins with the prophetic visions of Saint-Simon and assesses the contributions of such diverse thinkers as Comte, Marx, Dewey, Mannheim, Tugwell, Mumford, Simon, and Habermas. It is carried forward in Part Three by Friedmann's own nontechnocratic, dialectical approach to planning as a method for recovering political community.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Terrain of Planning Theory

2. Two Centuries of Planning Theory: An Overview

3. Planning as Social Reform

4. Planning as Policy Analysis

5. Planning as Social Learning

6. Planning as Social Mobilization

7. Where Do We Stand?

8. From Critique to Reconstruction

9. The Recovery of Political Community

10. The Mediations of Radical Planning

Epilogue

Appendix A. Planning as a Form of Scientific Management

Appendix B. The Professionalization of Policy Analysis

Appendix C. Marxism and Planning Theory

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691214009

069121400X

OCLC:

1159003370