Planning Theory
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Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory
Series: RTPI Library Series
For nearly fifty years John Friedmann's writings have not just led the academic study of the discipline, but have given shape and direction to the planning profession itself. Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the...
Published January 4th 2011 by Routledge
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Urban Theory Beyond the West
A World of Cities
Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing...
Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
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ReThinking the City
Conditions for travel have changed and are still changing the world – a world experiencing what John Urry calls the ‘mobility turn’. Since World War Two we have been moving faster and going further – a fact that has profoundly changed our way of experiencing both the world and ourselves. The...
Published August 25th 2011 by Routledge
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The Planning Game
An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management
Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of...
Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
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The Universe of Design
Horst Rittel's Theories of Design and Planning
This book examines the theoretical foundations of the processes of planning and design. When people – alone or in groups – want to solve problems or improve their situation, they make plans. Horst Rittel studied this process of making plans and he developed theories – including his notion of...
Published April 29th 2010 by Routledge