Post-Rational Planning

A Solutions-Oriented Call to Justice

By: Laura E. Tate

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Hardcover | 7 June 2021 | Edition Number 1

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Post-Rational Planning confronts today's threats to truth, particularly after recent news events that present alternative facts and media smear campaigns, often described as post-truth politics. At the same time, it appreciates critical tensions: between rationality (prized by planners and other policy professionals) and desires for positive, socially just outcomes. Rather than abandoning quests for truth, this book provides planners, policy professionals, and students with tools for better responding to debates over truth.

Post-Rational Planning

examines planners' unease with emotion and politics, advocating for more scholarship and practice capable of unpacking uses of rhetoric and framing to support or counter key planning decisions impacting social justice. This includes learning from recent works engaging with rhetoric, narrative construction, and framing in planning, while introducing other valuable concepts from disciplines like psychology, including confirmation bias; identity-protective cognition; from marketing and adult education. Each chapter sheds new light on a specific topic requiring a response through post-rational practice. It starts with recent research findings, then demonstrates them with case examples, enabling their use in classroom and practice settings. Each chapter ends by summarizing key lessons in "Take-aways for Practice," better enabling readers of all levels to synthesize and use key ideas.

Industry Reviews

"Throughout its history, planning has aspired to make society more rational but, as Laura E. Tate demonstrates convincingly, with limited success. The book offers indispensable lessons for post-rational planners navigating the uncertainties of an increasingly post-rational world."

-Pierre Filion, Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo

"Tate shows us how rational methods and expectations alone fail to deliver the public good. She helps us recognize and explore how people include a complex mix of values in the decisions and choices they make. Offering good professional advice requires tactics that compose equitable and resilient options using accessible, attractive and practical collaboration."

-Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago

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