Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson

Planning and Transformation

Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

This text is a key contribution to the international debate in planning theory, exploring the experience of planning in South Africa during the ten years from 1994.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780415360333
• ISBN-10: 0415360331
• Artikelnr.: 22519880

Autorenporträt

Philip Harrison is Executive Director of Development Planning and Urban Management in the City of Johannesburg and an honorary professor at the University of the Witwatersrand where he was previously professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning. Alison Todes is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. She was previously a Research Director at the Human Sciences Research Council, and Professor of Planning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Vanessa Watson is Professor in the City and Regional Planning Programme in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part A: Setting the Scene Introduction 1. Planning the Spaces of
Colonialism and Apartheid 2. New Planning Visions 3. Planning
Post-Apartheid Part B: Planning and Governance Introduction: International
Debates 4. Planning and Local Governance 5. Planning as Governance beyond
the Local: The Regional Question, National and Provincial Planning Part C:
Discourses of Planning Introduction: International Debates 6. Discourses of
the Spatial 7. Discourses of Social Transformation 8. Discourses of the
Economy and the Market 9. Discourses of Sustainability Part D: Planning and
Society Introduction: International Debates 10. The Planning Profession and
Society 11. Educating Planners 12. Planning, Democracy and Values 13.
Responding to Diversity: Conflicting Rationalities 14. Responding to
Informality 15. Conclusion: The Power of Planning and the Limits to Power:
Learning from the South African Experience