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The guide discusses the value of planning, how rationales for planning have changed, and whether we have too much, too little, or just the wrong kind of planning.
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12 November 2019

Why do we plan? Who decides how and where we plan and what we should value? How do theories and ideologies filter down into real policies and plans which affect our lives?
Written in a deliberately practitioner-friendly manner, this useful guide answers these questions and reveals planning theories to be simply new ideas that can help one see the world differently. Thinking about them enables us to take a step back to appreciate the wider context. The guide discusses the value of planning, how rationales for planning have changed, and whether we have too much, too little, or just the wrong kind of planning.
It then sets out 25 key concepts central to professional practice, ranging from participation and complexity to post-politics and state theory, from risk and resilience to governmentality, from assemblage to ecosystems and sustainability.
Written in a deliberately practitioner-friendly manner, this useful guide answers these questions and reveals planning theories to be simply new ideas that can help one see the world differently. Thinking about them enables us to take a step back to appreciate the wider context. The guide discusses the value of planning, how rationales for planning have changed, and whether we have too much, too little, or just the wrong kind of planning.
It then sets out 25 key concepts central to professional practice, ranging from participation and complexity to post-politics and state theory, from risk and resilience to governmentality, from assemblage to ecosystems and sustainability.
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Series: Concise Guides to Planning
Publication Date:
12 November 2019
Trim Size: 7.88 X 5.12 in
ISBN: 9781848222786
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Regional and area planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy
Graham Haughton is Professor of Urban Planning at the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester.
Iain White is Professor of Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Prior to this he was the Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Ecology at the University of Manchester, UK.
Part A: Preliminaries. Preface; Setting the Scene: why plan, why theory?
Part B: Theories. Urban Entrepreneurialism; Neoliberalism; Marxism; Postcolonial Urbanism, Informality and Insurgent Planning; Policy Mobilities; Territorial and Relational Geographies; Soft Spaces; Postpolitics; Governance, the State and State Rescaling; Governmentality; Power; Environmental and Social Justice; Gender and Intersectionality; Participation; Nudging; Transitions; Assemblages; Science and Technology Studies; Wickedness and Complexity; Risk and Uncertainty; Resilience; Sustainability: Part C: Partings. Conclusion; Glossary