John Friedmann

Insurgencies

Essays in Planning Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For nearly fifty years John Friedmann's writings have not just led the academic study of the discipline, but have given shape and direction to the planning profession itself. Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a coherent and compelling story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. With each essay given a new introduction to establish its context and importance, this is an ideal text for the study of planning theory and history.

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This collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a coherent and compelling story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice. An ideal text for the study of planning theory and history, each of the chapters is introduced by a brief essay to establish its context and importance, and is followed by a series of study questions to help focus classroom discussions, as well as suggested readings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780415781510
• ISBN-10: 0415781515
• Artikelnr.: 31891441

Autorenporträt

John Friedmann is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA and an Honorary Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. Internationally recognized for his path-breaking work on regional development and planning, he holds honorary doctorates from the University of Dortmund and the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. In 2006 he received the first UN-Habitat Lecture Award for lifetime achievement.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Introduction 1. The Transactive Style of Planning (1973) 2. The
Epistemology of Social Practice: A Critique of Objective Knowledge (1978)
3. Preface to The Good Society (1979) 4. The Mediations of Radical Planning
(1987) 5. Rethinking Poverty: The Dis/Empowerment Model (1992) 6. The Rise
of Civil Society (1998) 7. Planning Theory Revisited (1998) 8. The Good
City: In Defense of Utopian Thinking (2000) 9. The Many Cultures of
Planning (2005) 10. The Uses of Planning Theory: A Bibliographic Essay
(2008) Epilogue: Citizen Planners in an Era of Limits