Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Is Planning Theory? -- Why Do Planning Theory? -- Our Approach to Planning Theory -- Debates within Planning Theory -- The Continuing Evolution of Planning Theory -- The Readings -- References -- Part I: The Development of Planning Theory -- 1 Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- Ebenezer Howard: The Ideal City Made Practicable -- Ebenezer Howard: Design for Cooperation -- Le Corbusier: The Radiant City -- 2 Co-evolutions of Planning and Design -- Introduction -- Planning -- Design -- The Dialectics: A Very Brief History -- Key Aspects of a Planning/Design Dialectics -- Dilemmas -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Authoritarian High Modernism -- The Discovery of Society -- The Radical Authority of High Modernism -- Twentieth-Century High Modernism -- 4 The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- 5 Planning the Capitalist City -- Capitalism and Urban Planning -- The Problem of Planning -- Further Reading -- 6 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning -- Introduction -- Deferential Planning ("Technicist Planning") -- Social Reform Planning -- Social Justice Planning -- Conclusion -- Part II: What Are Planners Trying to Do? -- 7 The Planning Project -- Places in Our Lives -- The Politics of Place -- The Evolving Planning Project -- A Focus for the Planning Project -- References -- Suggested Further Reading -- 8 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World -- Introduction -- Material Culture -- Programmatic Planning -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Arguments For and Against Planning -- Economic Arguments -- Pluralist Arguments -- Traditional Arguments -- Marxist Arguments -- Conclusions and Implications -- 10 Is There Space for Better Planning in a Neoliberal World? -- Introduction -- Background - Is There Conceptually Space for Better Public Policy?.

The Redevelopment of Exeter City Center - Is There Space for Better Planning in Practice? -- Planning and the Development Industry - Could There Be Space for Better? -- Conclusions - Making Practical and Conceptual Space for Better -- References -- 11 Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? -- The Planner's Triangle: Three Priorities, Three Conflicts -- Implications of the Planner's Triangle Model -- Sustainable Development: Reaching the Elusive Center of the Triangle -- The Task Ahead for Planners: Seeking Sustainable Development within the Triangle of Planning Conflicts -- Planners: Leaders or Followers in Resolving Economic-Environmental Conflicts? -- References -- 12 Disasters, Vulnerability and Resilience of Cities -- Introduction -- An Urban Age at Risk -- Resilience and its Discontents -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 Spatial Justice and Planning -- Communicative Planning and the Just City -- Planning for the Just City -- Evaluations of Examples of Planning in Practice -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Implications of Practice for Theory -- 14 The Neglected Places of Practice -- Siting a Landfill -- Place and Practice -- Site, Place, Context -- References -- 15 Home, Sweet Home -- Roots of Zoning -- Separating Home from Work -- Creating the Single-Family District -- The American Way: Some Explicit and Implicit Justifications -- Conclusion -- References -- 16 Understanding Community Development in a "Theory of Action" Framework -- Introduction -- Community Development as a Field of Inquiry and Practice -- Three Theories of Action -- How Theories of Action Matter: the Case of Recent Housing Policy in the USA -- Conclusion -- References -- 17 Participatory Governance -- Citizen Competence, Empowerment, and Capacity-Building -- Service Delivery and Equity -- Political Representation and the Distribution of Power.

Empowered Participatory Governance -- Projects and Practices: Citizens' Panels, Participatory Budgeting, and People's Planning -- Participatory Expertise: A New Type of Expert? -- Concluding Perspective -- References -- 18 Cultivating Surprise and the Art of the Possible -- Challenges of Interdependence -- Listening to the Mediators -- From Practical Cases, Practical Lessons -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Wicked Problems in Planning -- 19 Inclusion and Democracy -- Social Difference Is Not Identity -- Structural Difference and Inequality -- What Is and Is Not Identity Politics -- Communication across Difference in Public Judgement -- 20 Towards a Cosmopolitan Urbanism -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 How Might We Live Together? Three Imaginings -- 20.3 Thinking Through Identity/Difference -- 20.4 Reconsidering Multiculturalism -- 20.5 Conclusions: The Marriage of Theory and Practice -- References -- 21 Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning -- The Planner as Advocate -- The Structure of Planning -- An Inclusive Definition of the Scope of Planning -- The Education of Planners -- Conclusion -- 22 The Minority-Race Planner in the Quest for a Just City -- Minority-Race People -- The Ends -- The Means -- The Minority-Race Planner -- Diversifying the Profession -- References -- 23 The Past, Present, and Future of Professional Ethics in Planning -- On the Difficulty of Aligning Social Morality with Planning -- Professional Ethics, Codes, and Sanctions -- Planners' Perceptions of Their Ethical Roles as Revealed in Research -- Morality in Planning and Policymaking -- The Ethics of Forecasting: An Illustration of Moral Dimensions of Collective Planning Practice -- Applying Ethical Principles to Collective Actions by Planners -- References -- 24 Insurgent Planning -- 1. Rethinking Participation -- 2. South Africa's Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign.

3. Inclusion and Citizenship -- 4. Implication for Radical Planning -- 5. Seeing from the South: Principles for Insurgent Practices -- References -- Part V: Planning in a Globalized World -- 25 Place and Place-Making in Cities -- Introduction -- A Placeless Scenario -- A First Approach: What Is a Place? -- The "Centering" of Place: Spaces of Encounter and Gathering -- The Invisible Costs of Displacements -- Making Places Is Everyone's Job -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 26 Urban Informality -- Two Views of Urban Informality -- Urban Informality as a Way of Life? -- The Informal State -- The Politics of the Informal City -- References -- 27 Seeing from the South -- Introduction -- The Problem with Urban Planning -- The New Context for Planning -- Conceptualising 'Conflicting Rationalities' -- The Interface: A Zone of Encounter and Contestation -- Conclusion -- References -- 28 Global Cities of the South -- Introduction -- Refocusing the Global/World Cities Lens -- Understanding Change and Inequality in the Global Cities of Developing Countries -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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