Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Planning theory is core to understanding how planning and its practices both function and are constantly evolving in our globalizing world. Planning and its many roles in relation to agency and governance have changed profoundly over the last few decades; so have the theories, both critical and explanatory, about its practices, values and knowledges. The wider world and the planning disciplines will undoubtedly change even further over the next few decades. Drawing on the top thinkers in planning theoretical thought this Handbook seeks to identify the cutting edge of contemporary planning theory so as to identify new emerging trajectories. This will provide the reader with key insights into not just contemporary planning thought, but potential future directions of both planning theory and planning itself.
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory is organized around three sections: contemporary planning practices, how values are constructed in planning, and theories of planning frameworks. The Handbook presents the views of the most important and challenging thinkers in planning thought. Each chapter will have these innovative scholars explore their own specialized areas of theory so as to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to further evolve and change as new challenges emerge. The Handbook will provide scholar and practitioners with a clear view of the current established state, as well as the latest exploratory perimeters of knowledge in planning theory.
Synopsis
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge.
In a changing and often unpredictable globalised world, planning theory is core to understanding how planning and its practices both function and evolve. As illustrated in this book, planning and its many roles have changed profoundly over the recent decades; so have the theories, both critical and explanatory, about its practices, values and knowledges. In the context of these changes, and to contribute to the development of planning research, this handbook identifies and introduces the cutting edge, and the new emerging trajectories, of contemporary planning theory. The aim is to provide the reader with key insights into not just contemporary planning thought, but potential future directions of both planning theory and planning as a whole. This book is written for an international readership, and includes planning theories which address, or have emerged from, both the global North and parts of the world beyond.
Synopsis
This handbook presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their specialized areas to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve as new challenges emerge.