Foundations of the Planning Enterprise: Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 1

by Healey,Patsy; Hillier,Jean

• ISBN13: 9780754627197
• ISBN10: 0754627195
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The first volume in this three volume series, Foundations of the Planning Enterprise, includes articles and papers which offer a unique general introduction to planning theory. The authors review the subject's development, its recurrent themes, its contemporary preoccupation as rational scientific management and its relations to other fields.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The 'Project' of Planning Theory

Introduction; 2 centuries of planning theory: an overview

What is planning theory?

If planning is everything maybe it's nothing

Dilemmas in a general theory of planning

Comparison of current planning theories: counterparts and contradictions

Theoretical debates in planning: towards a coherent dialogue

Towards a new typology of urban planning theories

Without a net: modernist planning and the postmodern abyss

New directions in planning theory

Inspirational Precursors

Introduction

The town-country magnet

Civics: as concrete and applied sociology, part II

The myth of megalopolis

TVA and democratic planning

Planning and democracy F.A. Hayek

The concept of social control: planning as the rational mastery of the irrational

Planning as Rational Scientific Management

Introduction

A choice theory of planning

The science of 'muddling through'

The guidance and control of change: physical planning as the control of complex systems

The rationale of planning theory

Advocacy and pluralism in planning

Social planning, social planners and planned societies

A ladder of citizen participation

Examining the policy-action relationship

Foundations

Re-examining the international diffusion of planning

Name index

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