Full Description
Planning lies at the heart of successful and sustainable places, yet planning scholarship often appears stuck in routinised patterns of thought. Critical Planning Futures brings together an international range of voices from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore new directions in planning theory, interrogate planning's orthodoxy, and push the boundaries of contemporary theory using ideas both from within planning and beyond. Contributors draw on examples from across the globe, considering the applicability of concepts and theories across traditional divides. In this way, Critical Planning Futures continues planning's rich tradition of borrowing ideas from elsewhere and using those ideas to shine a light back onto well-rehearsed theoretical debates to set out new ways forward for planning in the twenty-first century. This book will be a vital resource for planning specialists, though the breadth of ideas will be of interest to academics and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including urban studies, geography, political science, and sociology.
Contents
1. Critical planning futures 2. The ongoing unsettlement of planning thought: The difference that Settler-Colonial and Critical Indigenous Theory make 3. Environment planning after decolonial critique: On politics of knowledge, freedom, and future 4. Learning from the 'south': Towards a postcolonial narrative and understanding of informality 5. Refugeescapes in planning theory: Refugee placemaking in Dhaka and Delhi 6. Narrative approaches for Twenty-First Century planning 7. The epistemic limits of planning participation 8. A trek from instrumental and communicative rationality to emotional and symbolic involvement in urban planning and design 9. Planning from a systems perspective at the frontier: Complexity in the past and present 10. Ruptures and departures: an Emancipatory perspective on planning and technology 11. The mistreatment of time in planning theory: Towards planning beyond the clock in a world increasingly out-of-sync 12. Think far futures, act now: Reclaiming distant futures in planning education and practice 13. Epilogue: In search of planning theory
