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Bikers and hikers. Sex workers and social conservatives. Agencies
and activists. The people involved in planning for a site-or a
community-can be like the Hatfields and McCoys. And the process
brings them together face to face and toe to toe. How can planners
take conflicted communities from passionate demands to practical
solutions? Facilitative leadership offers helpful answers. Cornell
University's John Forester has produced a dozen profiles of
planning practitioners known for their successes in helping
communities turn contentious conflicts into practical consensus.
This remarkable book tells their stories in their own words. Lisa
Beutler shows the way she got California's off-highway vehicle
users and recreationists on the same track. Michael Hughes shares
the search for common ground for HIV prevention in Colorado.
Shirley Solomon recalls how lessons learned in South Africa helped
her build trust between Native Americans and county officials in
the Pacific Northwest. Forester and his panel of experts offer no
simplistic formulas but a great deal of practical guidance. From
mind mapping to the Hawaiian concept of Ho' oponopono (making
things right), readers will come away with a wealth of ideas they
can use to move from the heat of confrontation to the light of
creative solutions in their communities.
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted
and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public
sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical
challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the
interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The
book examines street level democratic processes through the
experiences of planning and city governance practitioners in
community development, youth work, public service delivery, urban
public administration, immigration and multi-cultural social
policy. These profiles and case studies show widely shared
challenges in global and local urban environments, and new,
"bottom-up," democratic and improvisational strategies that
community members and public officials alike can use to make more
inclusive, democratic cities.
Bikers and hikers. Sex workers and social conservatives. Agencies
and activists. The people involved in planning for a site-or a
community-can be like the Hatfields and McCoys. And the process
brings them together face to face and toe to toe. How can planners
take conflicted communities from passionate demands to practical
solutions? Facilitative leadership offers helpful answers. Cornell
University's John Forester has produced a dozen profiles of
planning practitioners known for their successes in helping
communities turn contentious conflicts into practical consensus.
This remarkable book tells their stories in their own words. Lisa
Beutler shows the way she got California's off-highway vehicle
users and recreationists on the same track. Michael Hughes shares
the search for common ground for HIV prevention in Colorado.
Shirley Solomon recalls how lessons learned in South Africa helped
her build trust between Native Americans and county officials in
the Pacific Northwest. Forester and his panel of experts offer no
simplistic formulas but a great deal of practical guidance. From
mind mapping to the Hawaiian concept of Ho' oponopono (making
things right), readers will come away with a wealth of ideas they
can use to move from the heat of confrontation to the light of
creative solutions in their communities.
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted
and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public
sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical
challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the
interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The
book examines street level democratic processes through the
experiences of planning and city governance practitioners in
community development, youth work, public service delivery, urban
public administration, immigration and multi-cultural social
policy. These profiles and case studies show widely shared
challenges in global and local urban environments, and new,
"bottom-up," democratic and improvisational strategies that
community members and public officials alike can use to make more
inclusive, democratic cities.
Rebuilding Community after Katrina chronicles the innovative and
ambitious partnership between Cornell University's City and
Regional Planning department and ACORN Housing, an affiliate of
what was the nation's largest low-income community organization.
These unlikely allies came together to begin to rebuild devastated
neighborhoods in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The editors
and contributors to this volume allow participants' voices to show
how this partnership integrated careful, technical analysis with
aggressive community outreach and organizing. With essays by
activists, organizers, community members, and academics on the
ground, Rebuilding Community after Katrina presents insights on the
challenges involved in changing the way politicians and analysts
imagined the future of New Orleans' Ninth Ward. What emerges from
this complex drama are lessons about community planning,
organizational relationships, and team building across
multi-cultural lines. The accounts presented in Rebuilding
Community after Katrina raise important and sensitive questions
about the appropriate roles of outsiders in community-based
planning processes.
Public policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form,
argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple
as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and
planning are profound. Drawing from recent work on language and
argumentation and referring to such theorists as Wittgenstein,
Habermas, Toulmin, and Foucault, these essays explore the interplay
of language, action, and power in both the practice and the theory
of policy-making.
The contributors, scholars of international renown who range
across the theoretical spectrum, emphasize the political nature of
the policy planner's work and stress the role of persuasive
arguments in practical decision making. Recognizing the rhetorical,
communicative character of policy and planning deliberations, they
show that policy arguments are necessarily selective, both shaping
and being shaped by relations of power. These essays reveal the
practices of policy analysts and planners in powerful new ways--as
matters of practical argumentation in complex, highly political
environments. They also make an important contribution to
contemporary debates over postempiricism in the social and policy
sciences.
"Contributors. "John S. Dryzek, William N. Dunn, Frank Fischer,
John Forester, Maarten Hajer, Patsy Healey, Robert Hoppe, Bruce
Jennings, Thomas J. Kaplan, Duncan MacRae, Jr., Martin Rein, Donald
Schon, J. A. Throgmorton
Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.
Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of
conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to
accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is
a perennial challenge for activists, politicians, planners, and
policymakers. John Forester is one of America's eminent scholars of
progressive planning and dispute resolution in the policy arena,
and in Dealing with Differences he focuses on a series of 'hard
cases'--conflicts that appeared to be insoluble yet which were
resolved in the end. Forester ranges across the country--from
Hawaii to Maryland to Washington State--and across issues--the
environment, ethnic conflict, and HIV. Throughout, he focuses on
how innovative mediators settled seemingly intractable disputes.
Between pessimism masquerading as 'realism' and the unrealistic
idealism that 'we can all get along, ' Forester identifies the
middle terrain where disputes do actually get resolved in ways that
offer something for all sides. Dealing with Differences serves as
an authoritative and fundamentally pragmatic pathway for anyone who
has to engage in the highly contentious worlds of planning and
policymaking.
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.
Citizen participation in such complex issues as the quality of
the environment, neighborhood housing, urban design, and economic
development often brings with it suspicion of government, anger
between stakeholders, and power plays by many--as well as appeals
to rational argument. Deliberative planning practice in these
contexts takes political vision and pragmatic skill. Working from
the accounts of practitioners in urban and rural settings, North
and South, John Forester shows how skillful deliberative practices
can facilitate practical and timely participatory planning
processes. In so doing, he provides a window onto the wider world
of democratic governance, participation, and practical
decisionmaking. Integrating interpretation and theoretical insight
with diverse accounts of practice, Forester draws on political
science, law, philosophy, literature, and planning to explore the
challenges and possibilities of deliberative practice.
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