Critical Planning Futures

Auteur

Philip Allmendinger is Professor of Land Economy and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Education at the University of London, UK.

Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Professor of Cities and Regions at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, UK.

Matthew Wargent is a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Development at Cardiff University, UK.

Texte du rabat

Critical Planning Futures brings together an international range of voices from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore new directions in planning theory, interrogate planning's orthodoxy, and push the boundaries of contemporary theory using ideas both from within planning and beyond.

Contenu

1. Critical planning futures 2. The ongoing unsettlement of planning thought: The difference that Settler-Colonial and Critical Indigenous Theory make 3. Environment planning after decolonial critique: On politics of knowledge, freedom, and future 4. Learning from the 'south': Towards a postcolonial narrative and understanding of informality 5. Refugeescapes in planning theory: Refugee placemaking in Dhaka and Delhi 6. Narrative approaches for Twenty-First Century planning 7. The epistemic limits of planning participation 8. A trek from instrumental and communicative rationality to emotional and symbolic involvement in urban planning and design 9. Planning from a systems perspective at the frontier: Complexity in the past and present 10. Ruptures and departures: an Emancipatory perspective on planning and technology 11. The mistreatment of time in planning theory: Towards planning beyond the clock in a world increasingly out-of-sync 12. Think far futures, act now: Reclaiming distant futures in planning education and practice 13. Epilogue: In search of planning theory