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Full Description
This timely book addresses what it is to be a planner in a changing world: a world in need of transformation in the way planning is done in order to tackle social problems and ecological crises. Nicholas Low argues for the need to revalue public planning, sensitive to the social context in which it takes place.
Aiming to define the social and political basis of planning, the book highlights how our neo-liberal world has lost touch with the importance of a well-resourced, impartial, professional and permanent public service to democracy. It does so by exploring the role of planning in long-term social and economic change, different understandings of social power and class and how human-nature relationships might influence ecological governance.
Planning scholars, particularly those focusing on urban and environmental planning, will find this book an inspiring and accessible read, integrating a wide range of social theories with social and ecological justice.
Contents
Contents: 1. People, planet and place PART 1 The Planner's Role 2. Planners construe their worlds 3. The mirror of planning theory 4. Mapping the terrain of power 5. Being and planning Part 2 Structures and Institutions 6. Neoliberal worlds 7. Class, power and planning 8. Planning and the regulation of capitalism 9. Institutional inertia and evolution 10. Feminist Insights into social structures and values Part 3 Values 11. Justice and society 12. Ecological justice: the self, society and nature 13. Global regulation of environmental exploitation 14. What matters: revaluing planning
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