Despite ongoing technical and professional advances, urban and regional planning is often far less effective than we might hope. Conflicting approaches and variable governmental settings have undermined planning's legitimacy and allowed its goals to be eroded and co-opted in the face of mounting challenges. Deeper organising principles for self-understanding, action and productive critique are lacking. This book takes steps toward resolving these problems by providing a clear theoretical position to practically examine urban planning systems within democratic governance settings: the basis of planning's legitimacy and action.…mehr
Despite ongoing technical and professional advances, urban and regional planning is often far less effective than we might hope. Conflicting approaches and variable governmental settings have undermined planning's legitimacy and allowed its goals to be eroded and co-opted in the face of mounting challenges. Deeper organising principles for self-understanding, action and productive critique are lacking. This book takes steps toward resolving these problems by providing a clear theoretical position to practically examine urban planning systems within democratic governance settings: the basis of planning's legitimacy and action.
Alan March, Dr, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Preface Part I Putting Planning in Its Democratic Place: The problem of planning-as-democracy Recognising planning's democratic challenges Why not democratic planning? Part II Planning in a Place: Victoria, Australia: Local repetition, metropolitan vacuum The local knowledge that repetition makes Inclusion - at the expense of collective concern? Problems of steering and scale: from individuals to the centre. Part III Changing a Place: Prognosis to Prescription: Critical potential: urban planning as democracy Appendices References Index.
Contents: Preface Part I Putting Planning in Its Democratic Place: The problem of planning-as-democracy Recognising planning's democratic challenges Why not democratic planning? Part II Planning in a Place: Victoria, Australia: Local repetition, metropolitan vacuum The local knowledge that repetition makes Inclusion - at the expense of collective concern? Problems of steering and scale: from individuals to the centre. Part III Changing a Place: Prognosis to Prescription: Critical potential: urban planning as democracy Appendices References Index.
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