Readings in Planning Theory (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
Product Details
ISBN: 9780631223474
Publish Date: 02/12/2003
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Number of pages: 488
Description
The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years.
- Examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years.
- Draws on a wide range of authors who address planning history, arguments for and against planning, competing planning styles, planning ethics, the public interest, and considerations of race and gender.
- Theoretical perspectives include political economy, postmodernism, communicative rationality, and feminism.
- Readings new to this edition examine themes emerging in planning theory, including a critique of the modernist roots of centralized planning, a reemphasis on space in planning, and a discussion of the difficulty of sustainable development.
- Features new case studies of planning success and failure in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
- Contains thirteen wholly new readings.
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