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Critical Readings in Planning Theory

Urban and Regional Planning Series

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1982
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Chris Paris
  • Language: English

Urban and Regional Planning Series, Volume 27: Critical Readings in Planning Theory presents a critical perspective on urban and regional planning. This book provides an… Read more

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Urban and Regional Planning Series, Volume 27: Critical Readings in Planning Theory presents a critical perspective on urban and regional planning. This book provides an understanding of various theoretical perspectives on planning. Organized into five parts encompassing 19 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the economic and social theory of planning. This text then examines the procedural planning theory, which deals with the making and implementing of plans. Other chapters consider the introduction of the systems approach to planning. This book discusses as well the theoretical respecification of the nature of town planning as it has developed under capitalism. The final chapter deals with the ideology of planning that is consistent with the view that town planning can be objectively useful. This book is a valuable resource for students of planning who want to understand planning as it is. Urban planners and engineers will also find this book useful.

Table of contents


Contributors

Part One: A Critique of Pure Planning

Introduction

The Procedural Planning Theory of A. Faludi

Towards a Combined Paradigm of Planning Theory?

A Rejoinder

Part Two: Planners as Urban Managers

Introduction

Urban Managerialism Reconsidered

Physical Planning and Market Forces in Urban Development

Planning, Landownership and the State

The Inner City: Planned Crisis or Crisis of Planning?

Part Three: Capitalist Urbanization and the State: Marxist Critiques

Introduction

The Oppression of Progress

Urban Planning: the Contradictions of Capitalist Urbanization

New Debates in Urban Planning: the Impact of Marxist Theory within the United States

Local Government as Local State

Part Four: Alternatives and Contradictions

Introduction

The Underlying Assumptions of Advocacy Planning: Pluralism and Reform

Reflections on Community Planning

A Task of Government

Part Five: The Future

Introduction

Towards an Understanding of Crisis and Transition: Planning in an Era of Limits

The Future of Planning (Theory?)

Notes on Further Reading

Name Index

Subject Index

Other Titles in the Series

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  • Edition: 1
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  • Published: December 21, 2013
  • Language: English

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