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

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Pub. Date: 2008-03-28
Publisher(s): Routledge
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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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