A future for planning : taking responsibility for twenty-first century challenges /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | RTPI library series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Preparing for the End of the World; What's Driving the 'Doom Boom'?; The Crisis in Planning; Our Collapsing Time Horizons; How Can Planning Regain its Role?; References; 1 The Rise of the New Right and the Attack on Planning; Not Great Planning Disasters, but Great Policy Disasters; What the Academic Literature Tells Us about Policy Failure
- and What it Neglects; Three Strategic Policy Failures; The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq; The Global Financial Crisis
- The UK Leaving the European Union (Brexit)What is the New Right?; The New Right in Government in the UK: The Thatcher Governments and Thatcherism; The New Right's Attack on Planning; The Impossibility of 'Planning': Knowledge, Information, and the Price System; References; Challenge 1 Population Change and Urban Development; References; 2 The New Right and Urban and Regional Planning; Is Urban and Regional Planning Really a Form of 'Central Planning'?; Hayek and Town Planning; The Problem of Politics; Market Fundamentalism (or the 'Good Hayek' and the 'Bad Hayek')
- The Impact of the New Right on Urban and Regional PlanningHow the New Right has Collapsed the Future; The Neoliberal Now; Responding to Major Challenges by Largely Ignoring Them; No Future; References; Challenge 2 Climate Change; References; 3 Failing to Face the Future: A Pathology of Failing to Plan (But Why We Still Can); Facing Death; Climate Change: The 'Challenge from Hell'; (Super) Wicked Problems and (Deep) Uncertainty; Is Climate Change Really too Wicked to Do Anything About?; Barriers to Thinking about the Future; Psychological Barriers; Social and Cultural Shaping of Issues
- Imagining the FutureHaven't We Been Warned Before Though?; Political Barriers; Learning to Die
- or Learning to Plan Again?; References; Challenge 3 Economic and Technological Disruption; References; 4 The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Planning; The Post-War Era: The Age(s) of Planning; The Master Plan or Blueprint Era; Northern Approaches to Planning in the Global South; The Systems Theory/Cybernetics-based Era; The (Contested) Participation Era; The Postmodern Era; Where We Are Now; Planning Research Has Also Lost Sight of Time; References; Challenge 4 Poor Governance and Political Instability