The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory: Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning - Couverture rigide

Healey, Patsy

 
9780754672548: The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory: Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning
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ISBN 10 : 0754672549 ISBN 13 : 9780754672548
Editeur : Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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'Ãatre of spatial planning faces significant conceptual and empirical challenges. 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 conceptualising spatial planning and the challenges it faces. Through problematising 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. 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 theorising from mainly poststructuralist perspectives and what discussion on complexity may offer planning theory and practice.

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À propos de l?auteur

Professor Jean Hillier Associate Dean, Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University, Australia and Patsy Healey, Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0754672549
ISBN 13 
9780754672548
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
520
Éditeur
Hillier Jean
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