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Insurgencies : essays in planning theory /

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 pl.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedmann, John
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Series:RTPI library series.
Subjects:
City planning.
City planning > Citizen participation.
Regional planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover13;
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The transactive style of planning
  • 2 The epistemology of social practice
  • 3 Preface to The Good Society
  • 4 The mediations of radical planning
  • 5 Rethinking poverty: the dis/empowerment model
  • 6 The rise of civil society
  • 7 Planning theory revisited
  • 8 The good city: in defense of utopian thinking
  • 9 The many cultures of planning
  • 10 The uses of planning theory
  • Epilogue: citizen planners in an era of limits
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index.