Contemporary Movements in Planning Theory: Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 3

by Healey,Patsy; Hillier,Jean

• ISBN13: 9780754627258
• ISBN10: 075462725X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The third and final volume in this series covers Contemporary Movements in Planning Theory and topics include communicative practices and the negotiation of meaning, networks, institutions and relations, and the complexity 'turn'. The articles selected represent the most influential and controversial recent work in planning theory and are supplemented by detailed introductions by the editors.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Communicative Practices and the Negotiation of Meaning: Introduction

The transactive style of planning

Understanding planning practice

A planner's day: knowledge and action in communicative practice

The argumentative or rhetorical turn in planning

Planning theory's emerging paradigm: communicative action and interactive practice

Strategies, processes and plans

Consensus-building as role-playing and bricolage: toward a theory of collaborative planning

Communicative planning theory: a Foucauldian assessment

Strife: urban planning and agonism

Conflicting rationalities: implications for planning theory and ethics

Networks, Institutions and Relations

Introduction

Planning and the network city: discursive correspondences

Postscript: a manifesto for a progressive networked urbanism

Network power in collaborative planning

Going round the back? Complex networks and informal action in local planning processes

The treatment of space and place in the new strategic spatial planning in Europe

Property rights, planning and markets: managing spontaneous cities

The logic of critical communicative planning: transaction cost alteration

The Complexity 'Turn' - Hope, Critique and Post-Structuralism

Introduction

Towards a planning imagination for the 21st century

Urban informality: toward an epistemology of planning

Spaces of insurgent citizenship

Coping with uncertainty in planning

Metaphors in complexity theory and planning

And if the global were small and noncoherent? Method, complexity and the baroque

Urban wild things: a cosmopolitical experience

Not over your dead bodies! A Lacanian interpretation of planning disclosure and practice

Ethical frameworks and planning theory

Name Index

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