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Planning in the Face of Power (Paperback)
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Why do our best-laid plans often over-reach and under-achieve? Why
do our attempts to solve problems in some rational way often run
afoul of politics and power? Why do we so often accomplish so
little, even as we sense that so much more is possible? By looking
closely at the work of city planners, Planning in the Face of Power
addresses these questions and provides a new way of thinking about
the practical and inevitably political work of improving our
neighborhoods, schools, community organizations, and the public
institutions that shape our lives. Power and inequality are
realities that planners of all kinds must face in the practical
world. In Planning in the Face of Power, John Forester argues that
effective, public-serving planners can overcome the
traditional--but paralyzing--dichotomies of being either
professional or political, detached and distantly rational or
engaged and change-oriented. Because inequalities of power directly
structure planning practice, planners who are blind to relations of
power will inevitably fail. Forester shows how, in the face of the
conflict-ridden demands of practice, planners can think politically
and rationally at the same time, avoid common sources of failure,
and work to advance both a vision of the broader public good and
the interests of the least powerful members of society. This book
provides a systematic reformulation of the politics of professional
practice in the arena of city planning, public policy making, and
public administration and management. It has immediate implications
for the study of administration and management and for students of
administration and planning in schools of social work, education,
and public health. While focusing concretely on problems of
planning practice (e.g. planners' sources of influence, their
difficulties of listening critically, their understandings of the
politics of organizations), Planning in the Face of Power brings to
bear a wide range of theoretical insights and so integrates social
and political theory with the demands of actual practice.
Accordingly, the book will be important to practitioners who seek
to understand the pressures they face at work as well as social
theorists who wish to integrate theory and practice more
powerfully, but will also appeal to the general reader interested
in gaining an understanding of the practice of planning in the face
of the realities of social equality and power.
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