Research Catalog

Title

Explorations in planning theory / edited by Seymour J. Mandelbaum, Luigi Mazza, Robert W. Burchell.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Center for Urban Policy Research, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Mandelbaum, Seymour J.
• Mazza, Luigi.
• Burchell, Robert W.

Description

xix, 543 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• 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, institutional design?
• In this comprehensive volume, the foremost voices in planning explore the foundational ideas and issues of the profession. This is not a book of bland abstract theorizing but an extended inquiry into the practice of the profession. As 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.".
• This landmark text defines the field for today's planners and the next generation.

Subject

• City planning > United States
• Regional planning > United States
• Urban policy > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The Talk of the Community / Seymour J. Mandelbaum -- 1. Two Centuries of Planning Theory: An Overview / John Friedmann -- 2. A Pragmatic Inquiry about Planning and Power / Charles Hoch -- 3. After Rationality: Towards a Contingency Theory for Planning / Ernest Alexander -- 4. Rationality, Critical Rationalism, and Planning Doctrine / Andreas Faludi -- 5. Open Moral Communities / Seymour J. Mandelbaum -- Advocating Preeminence: Anthologies as Politics / Robert A. Beauregard -- 6. Planning and Political Power: Toward a Strategy for Coping / Michael P. Brooks -- 7. Meaning, Not Interest: Motivation for Progressive Planning / Bishwapriya Sanyal -- 8. Thatcherism and the Swedish "Model": Center/Local Relationships in Urban Planning / Andy Thornley -- 9. Group Processes and the Social Construction of Growth Management: Florida, Vermont, and New Jersey / Judith Eleanor Innes -- The Latitude of Planners / Glen McDougall --
• 10. The Rationality of Listening, Emotional Sensitivity, and Moral Vision / John Forester -- 11. What Do Planners Do in the United States? / Charles Hoch -- 12. Argument, Power, and Passion in Planning Practice / John Forester -- 13. The Communicative Work of Development Plans / Patsy Healey -- 14. Deconstructing the Discourse of Planning / Jean Hillier -- Examining the Planning Practice Conscious(ness) / Helen Liggett -- 15. Plannings as Creative Interpretation / Giovanni Ferraro -- 16. Our Town: Foucault and Knowledge-based Politics in London / Judith Allen -- 17. "Impeaching" Research: Planning as Persuasive and Constitutive Discourse / James A. Throgmorton -- 18. Practicing Planning Theory in a Political World / Howell S. Baum -- The Dark Side of Planning: Rationality and "Realrationalitat" / Bent Flyvbjerg -- 19. On the Use of Models in Planning Ethics / Sue Hendler --
• 20. Postmodernist Planning Theory: The Incommensurability Premise / Thomas L. Harper and Stanley M. Stein -- 21. Ethical Mandates and the Virtue of Prudence / Seymour J. Mandelbaum -- The Systemic Nature of Professional Ethics / Niraj Verma -- 22. Planning and the Design and Use of Forums, Arenas, and Courts / John M. Bryson and Barbara C. Crosby -- 23. Planning Technologies and Planning Theories / Britton Harris -- 24. Planning and Institutional Design / Richard S. Bolan -- Designing Planning Processes / John Friend.

ISBN

• 0882851535 (cloth)
• 0882851543 (paper)

LCCN

95020379

OCLC

• 32590431
• ocm32590431

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Columbia University Libraries