Why Plan?: Theory for Practitioners (Concise Guides to Planning) - Hardcover

Book 8 of 12: Concise Guides to Planning

Haughton, Graham; White, Iain

 
9781848222786: Why Plan?: Theory for Practitioners (Concise Guides to Planning)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848222785 ISBN 13: 9781848222786
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

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.

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Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1848222785
ISBN 13 
9781848222786
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
160