Richard S Bolan

Urban Planning's Philosophical Entanglements

The Rugged, Dialectical Path from Knowledge to Action

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Produktbeschreibung

Urban Planning's Philosophical Entanglements explores the long-held idea that urban planning is the link in moving from knowledge to action. This book provides rich analysis and understanding of the theory and history of planning and what it means for planning practitioners on the ground.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781138233591
• ISBN-10: 1138233595
• Artikelnr.: 48208896

Autorenporträt

Richard Bolan has a 60-year career in urban planning. Graduating from Yale, MIT and NYU, he was a practitioner for ten years before joining the faculty at Boston College. Since 1985 he has been a faculty member in the Humphrey School at the University of Minnesota. His focus has been teaching and research in planning theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Knowledge and Action: Can We Urban Planners Really Connect Them?
Part I. Knowledge and Expertise
Chapter 2. The Knowledge-Action Problem
Chapter 3. What Does It Mean to "Know"
Chapter 4. Certainty and Uncertainty in Science
Chapter 5. The Inescapable in Cultural Knowledge
Chapter 6. Self- Knowledge and Self-Transformation
Part II. Knowledge and Action
Chapter 7. Theory of Action
Chapter 8. Social Action
Part III. The Nature of Professional Action in Urban Planning
Chapter 9. A Final Philosophical Entanglement - Space/Place
Chapter 10. What is to be done?
Epilogue