Readings in Planning Theory

663 Pages·2012·4.58 MB·English

by  Susan S. Fainstein

Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What Is Planning Theory?
Why Do Planning Theory?
Our Approach to Planning Theory
Debates within Planning Theory
The Continuing Evolution of Planning Theory
The Readings
References
Part I: The Development of Planning Theory
1 Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century
Introduction
Ebenezer Howard: The Ideal City Made Practicable
Ebenezer Howard: Design for Cooperation
Le Corbusier: The Radiant City
2 Co-evolutions of Planning and Design
Introduction
Planning
Design
The Dialectics: A Very Brief History
Key Aspects of a Planning/Design Dialectics
Dilemmas
Conclusion
References
3 Authoritarian High Modernism
The Discovery of Society
The Radical Authority of High Modernism
Twentieth-Century High Modernism
4 The Death and Life of Great American Cities
5 Planning the Capitalist City
Capitalism and Urban Planning
The Problem of Planning
Further Reading
6 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning
Introduction
Deferential Planning (“Technicist Planning”)
Social Reform Planning
Social Justice Planning
Conclusion
Part II: What Are Planners Trying to Do?
7 The Planning Project
Places in Our Lives
The Politics of Place
The Evolving Planning Project
A Focus for the Planning Project
References
Suggested Further Reading
8 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World
Introduction
Material Culture
Programmatic Planning
Conclusion
References
9 Arguments For and Against Planning
Economic Arguments
Pluralist Arguments
Traditional Arguments
Marxist Arguments
Conclusions and Implications
10 Is There Space for Better Planning in a Neoliberal World?
Introduction
Background – Is There Conceptually Space for Better Public Policy?
The Redevelopment of Exeter City Center – Is There Space for Better Planning in
Practice?
Planning and the Development Industry – Could There Be Space for Better?
Conclusions – Making Practical and Conceptual Space for Better
References
11 Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities?
The Planner’s Triangle: Three Priorities, Three Conflicts
Implications of the Planner’s Triangle Model
Sustainable Development: Reaching the Elusive Center of the Triangle
The Task Ahead for Planners: Seeking Sustainable Development within the
Triangle of Planning Conflicts
Planners: Leaders or Followers in Resolving Economic–Environmental Conflicts?
References
12 Disasters, Vulnerability and Resilience of Cities
Introduction
An Urban Age at Risk
Resilience and its Discontents
Conclusion
References
13 Spatial Justice and Planning
Communicative Planning and the Just City
Planning for the Just City
Evaluations of Examples of Planning in Practice
Conclusion
References
Part III: Implications of Practice for Theory
14 The Neglected Places of Practice
Siting a Landfill
Place and Practice
Site, Place, Context
References
15 Home, Sweet Home
Roots of Zoning
Separating Home from Work
Creating the Single-Family District
The American Way: Some Explicit and Implicit Justifications
Conclusion
References
16 Understanding Community Development in a “Theory of Action” Framework
Introduction
Community Development as a Field of Inquiry and Practice
Three Theories of Action
How Theories of Action Matter: the Case of Recent Housing Policy in the USA
Conclusion
References
17 Participatory Governance
Citizen Competence, Empowerment, and Capacity-Building
Service Delivery and Equity
Political Representation and the Distribution of Power
Empowered Participatory Governance
Projects and Practices: Citizens’ Panels, Participatory Budgeting, and People’s
Planning
Participatory Expertise: A New Type of Expert?
Concluding Perspective
References
18 Cultivating Surprise and the Art of the Possible
Challenges of Interdependence
Listening to the Mediators
From Practical Cases, Practical Lessons
Conclusion
References
Part IV: Wicked Problems in Planning
19 Inclusion and Democracy
Social Difference Is Not Identity
Structural Difference and Inequality
What Is and Is Not Identity Politics
Communication across Difference in Public Judgement
20 Towards a Cosmopolitan Urbanism
20.1 Introduction
20.2 How Might We Live Together? Three Imaginings
20.3 Thinking Through Identity/Difference
20.4 Reconsidering Multiculturalism
20.5 Conclusions: The Marriage of Theory and Practice
References
21 Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning
The Planner as Advocate
The Structure of Planning
An Inclusive Definition of the Scope of Planning
The Education of Planners
Conclusion
22 The Minority-Race Planner in the Quest for a Just City
Minority-Race People
The Ends
The Means
The Minority-Race Planner
Diversifying the Profession
References
23 The Past, Present, and Future of Professional Ethics in Planning
On the Difficulty of Aligning Social Morality with Planning
Professional Ethics, Codes, and Sanctions
Planners’ Perceptions of Their Ethical Roles as Revealed in Research
Morality in Planning and Policymaking
The Ethics of Forecasting: An Illustration of Moral Dimensions of Collective
Planning Practice
Applying Ethical Principles to Collective Actions by Planners
References
24 Insurgent Planning
1. Rethinking Participation
2. South Africa’s Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
3. Inclusion and Citizenship
4. Implication for Radical Planning
5. Seeing from the South: Principles for Insurgent Practices
References
Part V: Planning in a Globalized World
25 Place and Place-Making in Cities
Introduction
A Placeless Scenario
A First Approach: What Is a Place?
The “Centering” of Place: Spaces of Encounter and Gathering
The Invisible Costs of Displacements
Making Places Is Everyone’s Job
Concluding Thoughts
References
26 Urban Informality
Two Views of Urban Informality
Urban Informality as a Way of Life?
The Informal State
The Politics of the Informal City
References
27 Seeing from the South
Introduction
The Problem with Urban Planning
The New Context for Planning
Conceptualising ‘Conflicting Rationalities’
The Interface: A Zone of Encounter and Contestation
Conclusion
References
28 Global Cities of the South
Introduction
Refocusing the Global/World Cities Lens
Understanding Change and Inequality in the Global Cities of Developing Countries
Conclusion
References
Index
End User License Agreement
List of Tables
Chapter 10
Table 10.1 Dominant traditions in public policy.
Chapter 16
Table 16.1 Theories underlying community development practice in the USA.
Chapter 28
Table 28.1 The world city status of the 25 largest cities in developing countries
according to Beaverstock et al.’s ‘Roster of World Cities.’
Table 28.2 Reinterpreting the global/world city–social inequality link.
List of Illustrations
Chapter 07
Figure 7.1 The ambiguous position of planners.
Figure 7.2 Balanced and sustainable development: A European perspective.
Chapter 11
Figure 11.1 The triangle of conflicting goals for planning, and the three associated
conflicts. Planners define themselves, implicitly, by where they stand on the triangle.
The elusive ideal of sustainable development leads one to the center.
Chapter 15
Figure 15.1 Part of Berkeley’s 1949 zoning map, showing some of its single-family
districts.
Figure 15.2 An example of an English scheme from the same period. Note the general
residence category and the absence of a single-family one.
Readings in Planning Theory

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