Explorations In Planning Theory

Author : Luigi Mazza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351520935

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Explorations in Planning Theory by Luigi Mazza Pdf

What is this thing called planning? What is its domain? What do planners do? How do they talk? What are the limits and possibilities for planning imposed by power, politics, knowledge, technology, interpretation, ethics, and institutional design? In this comprehensive volume, the foremost voices in planning explore the foundational ideas and issues of the profession.Explorations in Planning Theory is an extended inquiry into the practice of the profession. As such, it is a landmark text that defines the field for today's planners and the next generation. As Seymour J. Mandelbaum notes in the introduction, ""the shared framework of these essays captures a pervasive interest in the behavior, values, character, and experience of professional planners at work.""All of the chapters in this volume are written to address arguments that are important in the community of planning theoreticians and are crafted in the language of that community. While many of the contributors included here differ in their styles, the editors note that students, experienced practitioners, and scholars of city and regional planning will find this work illuminating and helpful in their research.

Author : Michael Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351178594

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Planning Theory for Practitioners by Michael Brooks Pdf

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. In this new book, the author bridges the gap between theory and practice. The author describes an original approach-Feedback Strategy-that builds on the strengths of previous planning theories with one big difference: it not only acknowledges but welcomes politics-the bogeyman of real-world planning. Don't hold your nose or look the other way, the author advises planners, but use politics to your own advantage. The author admits that most of the time planning theory doesn't have much to do with planning practice. These ideas rooted in the planner's real world are different. This strategy employs everyday poltiical processes to advance planning, trusts planners' personal values and professional ethics, and depends on their ability to help clients articulate a vision. This volume will encourage not only veteran planners searching for a fresh approach, but also students and recent graduates dismayed by the gap between academic theory and actual practice.

Author : Luigi Mazza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351520928

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Explorations in Planning Theory by Luigi Mazza Pdf

What is this thing called planning? What is its domain? What do planners do? How do they talk? What are the limits and possibilities for planning imposed by power, politics, knowledge, technology, interpretation, ethics, and institutional design? In this comprehensive volume, the foremost voices in planning explore the foundational ideas and issues of the profession.Explorations in Planning Theory is an extended inquiry into the practice of the profession. As such, it is a landmark text that defines the field for today's planners and the next generation. As Seymour J. Mandelbaum notes in the introduction, ""the shared framework of these essays captures a pervasive interest in the behavior, values, character, and experience of professional planners at work.""All of the chapters in this volume are written to address arguments that are important in the community of planning theoreticians and are crafted in the language of that community. While many of the contributors included here differ in their styles, the editors note that students, experienced practitioners, and scholars of city and regional planning will find this work illuminating and helpful in their research.

Author : Michael Gunder,Ali Madanipour,Vanessa Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317444855

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The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory by Michael Gunder,Ali Madanipour,Vanessa Watson Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge. In a changing and often unpredictable globalized world, planning theory is core to understanding how planning and its practices both function and evolve. As illustrated in this book, planning and its many roles have changed profoundly over the recent decades; so have the theories, both critical and explanatory, about its practices, values and knowledges. In the context of these changes, and to contribute to the development of planning research, this handbook identifies and introduces the cutting edge, and the new emerging trajectories, of contemporary planning theory. The aim is to provide the reader with key insights into not just contemporary planning thought, but potential future directions of both planning theory and planning as a whole. This book is written for an international readership, and includes planning theories that address, or have emerged from, both the global North and parts of the world beyond.

Author : Susan S. Fainstein,James DeFilippis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119045069

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Readings in Planning Theory by Susan S. Fainstein,James DeFilippis Pdf

Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory. Represents the newest edition of the leading text in planning theory that brings together the essential classic and cutting-edge readings Features 20 completely new readings (out of 28 total) for the fourth edition Introduces and defines key debates in planning theory with editorial materials and readings selected both for their accessibility and importance Systematically captures the breadth and diversity of planning theory and puts issues into wider social and political contexts without assuming prior knowledge of the field

Author : Robert A. Beauregard
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788978897

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Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory by Robert A. Beauregard Pdf

In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. Beauregard cuts across the many different ways to think about planning by organizing them around four core tasks: knowing, engaging, prescribing, and executing. In doing so, Beauregard explores how a basic concern with the relationship between knowledge and action has evolved into a complex discussion of democracy, inclusion, and justice.

Author : Preston P. Le Breton,D. A. Henning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:37193762

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Planning Theory by Preston P. Le Breton,D. A. Henning Pdf

Author : Preston P. LeBreton,Dale A. Henning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313035074

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Planning Theory by Preston P. LeBreton,Dale A. Henning Pdf

Author : Ernest R. Alexander
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 2881245110

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Approaches to Planning by Ernest R. Alexander Pdf

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Walter Schoenwandt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317080053

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Planning in Crisis? by Walter Schoenwandt Pdf

In recent years, a formidable gulf has opened up between planning theory and practice. Over the past four decades, planning academics have developed strong theories and created models to accompany and elucidate the planning process. However, many planning practitioners have resisted the notion that theory can play a positive role in the solution of concrete planning problems This volume provides a comprehensive overview of all the main planning theories and models, while also introducing an innovative new model and a set of tools. Modeled on the theories of Mario Bunge this dynamic new approach allows planners to achieve a better understanding of the complexities involved in the role of planners and their impact on the built environment.

Author : Robert Burchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351499538

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Planning Theory by Robert Burchell Pdf

Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility. The planner, dealing with stresses such as the personalities at work in a board meeting and coping with the realities of fund raising, political realities, and the like, can find little guidance in the theory of the trade. The issues of poverty groups, whether rural or urban, the provision of services, and the packaging of them are seemingly insuperable. The sheer frustration in the inability to deliver, which so many planners feel, can result in considerable impatience and a questioning of the relevance of theory.The editors argue that this state of affairs, though understandable, is unacceptable. While short-range meliorismwithout sense of perspective may be good for the practitioner's individual psyche, the cost may be borne by the long-run best interests of the groups to be served. The risks of a lack of perspective and the experiences generated by this phenomenon are too serious in their implications to permit the process to continue.In this new age of anxiety it is essential for both planners and theorists to understand their roles as well as provide guidance in shaping them. Burchell and Sternlieb have thus gathered here a variety of individuals, all of whom in their separate and distinct fashions are seasoned, both in practice and in theory. The book is divided into five sections: Physical Planning in Change, Social Planning in Change, Public Policy Planning in Change, Economic Planning in Change, and a final section detailing the roles of planners and who they are. These shared puzzlements and insights will prove useful to all practitioners and theorists in the planning field.

Author : Franco Archibugi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788847006966

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Planning Theory by Franco Archibugi Pdf

Planning Theory expresses a sound unease about the direction taken by the current analysis and criticism of planning experiences. To oppose the debate that freezes planning as a permanently declining engagement, this book aims to identify the essential guidelines of a re-launch of planning processes and techniques, configuring a kind of neo-discipline. This builds upon a multi-disciplinary integration - never seen and experimented with until now.

Author : Andreas Faludi
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010322209

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A Reader in Planning Theory by Andreas Faludi Pdf

Author : Philip Allmendinger,Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134490592

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Planning Futures by Philip Allmendinger,Mark Tewdwr-Jones Pdf

Planning theory is currently in a confused state as a consequence of a number of changes over the last ten years in planning practice and social and economic theory. Even prior to these events, planning theory was an uncertain discipline, reflecting planning's precarious position between and resting upon a range of professional subject areas and philosophical roots. Planning Futures is an attempt to pin down the constantly evolving landscape of planning theory and to chart a path through this fast changing field. Planning Futures is an up-to-date reader on planning theory, but adds something more to the subject area than a mere textbook. The contributors have attempted to bridge theory and practice while putting forward new theoretical ideas. By drawing upon examples from planning practice and case study scenarios, the authors ensure that the work discusses planning theory within the context of present planning practice. Case studies are drawn from an international arena, from the UK, Europe, South Africa and Australia.

Author : Matthew Carmona
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317137528

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Explorations in Urban Design by Matthew Carmona Pdf

Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices and processes. It enthuses and inspires users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need inspiration to move from idea to methodological approach. Through the work of 32 urban researchers from the arts, sciences and social sciences, it demonstrates a wide range of problems and approaches and shows how the diverse range of complementary approaches can come together to provide a holistic understanding to the design of cities. While each of the contributors presents a particular approach to researching the field, sometimes focusing centrally on particular research methodologies, others cutting across methods, or focusing on theory, all include discussion of actual research projects to illustrate their application to 'real world' problems. This book will be valuable to everyone from the informed undergraduate student about to embark on their first dissertation, to PhD students and seasoned researchers immersed in methodological and conceptual complexity and wishing to compare available and appropriate methodological paths.