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Planning for the Common Good (Paperback)
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Planning for the Common Good (Paperback)
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Appeals to the 'common good' or 'public interest' have long been
used to justify planning as an activity. While often criticised,
such appeals endure in spirit if not in name as practitioners and
theorists seek ways to ensure that planning operates as an
ethically attuned pursuit. Yet, this leaves us with the unavoidable
question as to how an ethically sensitive common good should be
understood. In response, this book proposes that the common good
should not be conceived as something pre-existing and 'out there'
to be identified and applied or something simply produced through
the correct configuration of democracy. Instead, it is contended
that the common good must be perceived as something 'in here,'
which is known by engagement with the complexities of a context
through employing the interpretive tools supplied to one by the
moral dimensions of the life in which one is inevitably embedded.
This book brings into conversation a series of thinkers not
normally mobilised in planning theory, including Paul Ricoeur,
Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor. These shine light on how the
values carried by the planner are shaped through both their
relationships with others and their relationship with the
'tradition of planning' - a tradition it is argued that extends as
a form of reflective deliberation across time and space. It is
contended that the mutually constitutive relationship that gives
planning its raison d'etre and the common good its meaning are
conceived through a narrative understanding extending through time
that contours the moral subject of planning as it simultaneously
profiles the ethical orientation of the discipline. This book
provides a new perspective on how we can come to better understand
what planning entails and how this dialectically relates to the
concept of the common good. In both its aim and approach, this book
provides an original contribution to planning theory that
reconceives why it is we do what we do, and how we envisage what
should be done differently. It will be of interest to scholars,
students and practitioners in planning, urban studies, sociology
and geography.
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