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The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory - Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory - Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning (Hardcover, New Ed)
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At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which
humans interact with their environments - through financial,
environmental and/or social crises - the raison d'Atre of spatial
planning faces significant conceptual and empirical challenges.
This Companion presents a multidimensional collection of critical
narratives of conceptual challenges for spatial planning. The
authors draw on various disciplinary traditions and theoretical
frames to explore different ways of conceptualising spatial
planning and the challenges it faces. Through problematising
planning itself, the values which underpin planning and
theory-practice relations, contributions make visible the limits of
established planning theories and illustrate how, by thinking about
new issues, or about issues in new ways, spatial planning might be
advanced both theoretically and practically. There cannot be
definitive answers to the conceptual challenges posed, but the
authors in this collection provoke critical questions and debates
over important issues for spatial planning and its future. A key
question is not so much what planning theory is, but what might
planning theory do in times of uncertainty and complexity. An
underlying rationale is that planning theory and practice are
intrinsically connected. The Companion is presented in three linked
parts: issues which arise from an interactive understanding of the
relations between planning ideas and the political-institutional
contexts in which such ideas are put to work; key concepts in
current theorising from mainly poststructuralist perspectives and
what discussion on complexity may offer planning theory and
practice.
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