Critical Essays in Planning Theory

Contents: Introduction; Part I Communicative Practices and the Negotiation of Meaning: Introduction: The transactive style of planning, John Friedmann; Understanding planning practice, John Forester; A planner's day: knowledge and action in communicative practice, Patsy Healey; The argumentative or rhetorical turn in planning, James A. Throgmorton; Planning theory's emerging paradigm: communicative action and interactive practice, Judith E. Innes; Strategies, processes and plans, Patsy Healey; Consensus-building as role-playing and bricolage: toward a theory of collaborative planning, Judith E. Innes and David E. Booher; Communicative planning theory: a Foucauldian assessment, Rapha«l Fischler; Strife: urban planning and agonism, John Pl¸ger; Conflicting rationalities: implications for planning theory and ethics, Vanessa Watson. Part II Networks, Institutions and Relations: Introduction; Planning and the network city: discursive correspondences, Robert A. Beauregard; Postscript: a manifesto for a progressive networked urbanism, Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin; Network power in collaborative planning, David E. Booher and Judith E. Innes; Going round the back? Complex networks and informal action in local planning processes, Jean Hillier; The treatment of space and place in the new strategic spatial planning in Europe, Patsy Healey; Property rights, planning and markets: managing spontaneous cities, Chris Webster and Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai; The logic of critical communicative planning: transaction cost alteration, Tore Sager. Part III The Complexity 'Turn' - Hope, Critique and Post-Structuralism: Introduction; Towards a planning imagination for the 21st century, Leonie Sandercock; Urban informality: toward an epistemology of planning, Ananya Roy; Spaces of insurgent citizenship, James Holston; Coping with uncertainty in planning, Karen S. Christensen; Metaphors in complexity theory and planning, Angelique Chettiparamb; And if the global were small and noncoherent?