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  • Readings in Planning Theory (Studies in Urban & Social Change)
    2020
    Co-Authors: Scott Campbell, Susan S Fainstein
    Abstract:

    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. The editors have selected a set of classic and contemporary writings to address a central question: What role can Planning Theory play in making the good city and region within the constraints of a capitalist political economy and a democratic political system? The volume 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. The second edition also features new case studies of Planning success and failure in both the United States and the United Kingdom.In this second edition of Readings in Planning Theory the editors retain 10 of the 28 original readings from the first edition. Four other readings have been updated with more recent writings from the same author (the opening introduction and the chapters by Fainstein, Krumholz and Healey). Thirteen readings are wholly new.

  • Planning Theory and the city
    Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2005
    Co-Authors: Susan S Fainstein
    Abstract:

    The distinction between urban Theory and Planning Theory is not intellectually viable. Reasons include (1) the historical roots and justification for Planning, which depends on a vision of the city rather than simply a method of arriving at prescription; (2) the dependence of effective Planning on its context, which means that Planning activity needs to be rooted in an understanding of the field in which it is operating; and (3) the objective of Planning as conscious creation of the just city, which requires a substantive normative framework.

  • readings in Planning Theory
    2003
    Co-Authors: Scott Campbell, Susan S Fainstein
    Abstract:

    List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory: Scott Campbell and Susan S. Fainstein. Part I: Foundations of Twentieth-Century Planning:. Introduction:. 1. Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyed Wrigth, and Le Corbusier: Robert Fishman. 2. The Death and Life of Great American Cities: Jane Jacobs. 3. Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning: John Friedmann. Part II: Planning: Justifications and Critiques:. Introduction. 4. Arguments For and Against Planning: Richard Klosterman. 5. Planning the Capitalist City: Richard E. Foglesong. 6. Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of U.S. Planning: Robert A. Beauregard. 7. Authoritarian High Modernism: James C. Scott. 8. Making Space: Planning as a Mode of Thought: David C. Perry. Part III: Planning Types:. Introduction. 9. New Directions in Planning Theory: Susan S. Fainstein. 10. The Science of "Muddling Through": Charles E. Lindblom. 11. Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning: Paul Davidoff. 12. Equitable Approaches to Local Economic Development: Norman Krumholz. 13. The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation: Patsy Healey. Part IV: Planning in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies:. Introduction. 14. What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases: John M. Levy. 15. Community and Consensus: Reality and Fantasy in Planning: Howell S. Baum. 16. Popular Planning: Coin Street, London: Tim Brindley, Yvonne Rydin, and Gerry Stoker. 17. Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice: Bent Flyvbjerg. Part V: Race, Gender, and City Planning:. Introduction. 18. City Life and Difference: Iris Marion Young. 19. Educating Planners: Unified Diversity for Social Action: June Manning Thomas. 20. Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie: Dolores Hayden. 21. Towards Cosmopolis: Utopia as Construction Site: Leonie Sandercock. Part VI: Ethics, the Environment, and Conflicting Priorities:. Introduction. 22. APA's Ethical Principles Include Simplistic Planning Theories: William H. Lucy. 23. Risk Assessment and Environmental Crisis: Toward an Integration of Science and Participation: Frank Fischer. 24. Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development: Scott Campbell. Index.

  • new directions in Planning Theory
    Urban Affairs Review, 2000
    Co-Authors: Susan S Fainstein
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    The author examines three approaches to Planning Theory: the communicative model, the new urbanism, and the just city. The first type emphasizes the planner’s role in mediating among “stakeholders,” the second paints a physical picture of a desirable planned city, and the third presents a model of spatial relations based on equity. Differences among the types reflect an enduring tension between a focus on the Planning process and an emphasis on desirable outcomes. The author defends the continued use of the just-city model and a modified form of the political economy mode of analysis that underlies it.

Vanessa Watson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Case for a Southern Perspective in Planning Theory
    International Journal of E-Planning Research, 2020
    Co-Authors: Vanessa Watson
    Abstract:

    In a number of disciplines scholars are questioning the relevance of theoretical positions which claim general and global applicability, yet are grounded in assumptions about social and material conditions which are more specific to a global North context. This paper focuses on the recent interest in urban Planning Theory to develop explanatory and normative Theory that directly addresses the problems and issues of cities in the global South. It suggests a number of starting assumptions, very different from those that inform much current Planning Theory, which need to inspire the development of Planning thought with a global South orientation. These are illustrated through an example of state-society conflict in an informal settlement. While there is certainly a case for developing a global south perspective in Planning Theory, it is also important to specify the limitations on such an exercise to avoid the trap of creating new theoretical binaries.

  • Shifting Approaches to Planning Theory: Global North and South
    Urban Planning, 2016
    Co-Authors: Vanessa Watson
    Abstract:

    Planning Theory has shifted over time in response to changes in broader social and philosophical Theory as well as changes in the material world. Postmodernism and poststructuralism dislodged modernist, rational and technical approaches to Planning. Consensualist decision-making theories of the 1980s took forms of communicative and collaborative Planning, drawing on Habermasian concepts of power and society. These positions, along with refinements and critiques within the field, have been hegemonic in Planning Theory ever since. They are, in most cases, presented at a high level of abstraction, make little reference to the political and social contexts in which they are based, and hold an unspoken assumption that they are of universal value, i.e. valid everywhere. Not only does this suggest important research methodology errors but it also renders these theories of little use in those parts of the world which are contextually very different from Theory origin—in most cases, the global North. A more recent ‘southern turn’ across a range of social science disciplines, and in Planning Theory, suggests the possibility of a foundational shift toward theories which acknowledge their situatedness in time and place, and which recognize that extensive global difference in cities and regions renders universalized theorising and narrow conceptual models (especially in Planning Theory, given its relevance for practice) as invalid. New southern theorising in Planning is drawing on a range of ideas on societal conflict, informality, identity and ethnicity. Postcolonialism and coloniality have provided a useful frame for situating places historically and geographically in relation to the rest of the world. However, the newness of these explorations still warrants the labelling of this shift as a ‘southern theorizing project’ in Planning rather than a suggestion that southern Planning Theory has emerged.

  • Down to Earth: Linking Planning Theory and Practice in the ‘Metropole’ and Beyond
    International Planning Studies, 2008
    Co-Authors: Vanessa Watson
    Abstract:

    The paper explores the issue of the link between Planning Theory and practice, and achieving what is sometimes termed ‘situated’ Planning Theory. It argues that mainstream Planning Theory (i.e. the various strands of communicative Planning Theory [CPT]) has come closer to this than most previous theorizing, but that there is still a significant gap between theorizing about, and the reality of, practice in particular contexts. While this issue has been a subject of debate within that part of the world where CPT has its origins (the global North), the relevance of mainstream Planning Theory to practice in other parts of the world has had less attention. This paper asks how well CPT ‘travels’ across the globe, and what might be required to improve its portability.

  • conflicting rationalities implications for Planning Theory and ethics
    Planning Theory & Practice, 2003
    Co-Authors: Vanessa Watson
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    The article argues that while certain recent Planning theories have attempted to take account of social difference and multiculturalism, there is not yet sufficient recognition of just how deep dif...

  • Conflicting rationalities: Implications for Planning Theory and ethics
    Planning Theory and Practice, 2003
    Co-Authors: Vanessa Watson
    Abstract:

    The article argues that while certain recent Planning theories have attempted to take account of social difference and multiculturalism, there is not yet sufficient recognition of just how deep difference can be, and how planners can frequently find themselves in situations characterized by conflicting rationalities. The article draws on a case of an attempted informal settlement upgrade in Cape Town, South Africa, to illustrate the gap between the notion of ?proper citizens? and ?proper living environments? espoused by the municipality, and the nature of the rationality guiding the actions of certain of the other parties involved. This understanding, it is suggested, has important implications for both Planning Theory and ethics. The article argues that while certain recent Planning theories have attempted to take account of social difference and multiculturalism, there is not yet sufficient recognition of just how deep difference can be, and how planners can frequently find themselves in situations characterized by conflicting rationalities. The article draws on a case of an attempted informal settlement upgrade in Cape Town, South Africa, to illustrate the gap between the notion of ?proper citizens? and ?proper living environments? espoused by the municipality, and the nature of the rationality guiding the actions of certain of the other parties involved. This understanding, it is suggested, has important implications for both Planning Theory and ethics.

Pauline M Mcguirk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • situating communicative Planning Theory context power and knowledge
    Environment and Planning A, 2001
    Co-Authors: Pauline M Mcguirk
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    The purpose of this paper is to contribute to an emerging body of critique of communicative Planning Theory (CPT). The critiques in the paper are grounded in analysis of situated Planning practice in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, where planners were 'feeling their way towards' democratising Planning practice in line with the normative dimensions of CPT. Two critiques are offered. Both are fundamentally concerned with power and the tendency of CPT to operate as if the workings of power can be temporarily suspended through communicative Planning practice to produce new consensual Planning discourses. First, it is argued that CPT pays insufficient attention to the practical context of power in which Planning is practised, thereby assuming away, rather than engaging with, the politics-laden and power-laden interests that infiltrate Planning practice. Second, it is argued that CPT abstracts planners from their positioning in a nexus of power, knowledge, and rationality which validates expert forms of knowing/reasoning/valuing, and thus underestimates the challenges of asserting alternative forms. The paper concludes with a suggestion that any Theory aiming at the democratisation of Planning practice will need to depart from an orientation to consensus, a defining feature of CPT, and instead account for the irreducible nature of power and difference.

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