The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory- Front Cover
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Planning Theory: An Introduction
	Aims of This Book
	The Changing Landscape of Planning Theory
	Theories of Planning Practice
	Theories of Planning Meaning
	Theories of Planning Framework
	References
PART I: Contemporary Planning Practices
Chapter 2: Spatial Planning: The Promised Land or Rolled-Out Neoliberalism?
	Introduction
	Place Matters: The Ascendance of Spatial Planning
	Theoretical Contexts of Spatial Planning and Their Critiques
	Neoliberalisation of Spatial Planning
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Strategic Planning: Ontological and Epistemological Challenges
	Introduction
	Strategic Spatial Planning: History, Logic, Aims, Critique
	Potential Critical Features Explaining the Strategic Nature of Planning
	What Next?
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Growth Management Theory: From the Garden City to Smart Growth
	A Brief History of Growth Management
	Approaches to Managing Growth
	Smart Growth as a Paradigm
	Challenges to Smart Growth
	The Future of Growth Management
	References
Chapter 5: Planning in the Anthropocene
	Introduction: Framing the Conundrum
	The Question of Urban ‘Land’: A Biophysical Systems Perspective
	Cities as ‘Dissipative Structures’
	Are Cities Ecosystems?
	The Eco-footprints of Cities: What Really Constitutes ‘Urban’ Land?
	Evidence-based Planning for the Anthropocene
	Growth or Development? The Need for New Economic Theory
	Economics For the Anthropocene
	Epilogue: Is H. Sapiens Fatally Flawed?
	Notes
	References
PART II: How Meaning/Values Are Constructed in Planning
Chapter 6: The Public Interest
	Introduction: The Fall from Grace of the Idea of the Public Interest
	What Kind of Inexistence? First View, Divergentism
	What Kind of Inexistence? Second View, Dialogical Proceduralism
	What Kind of Inexistence? Third View, (Classical) Liberalism
	What Kind of Inexistence? Fourth View, Value-Pluralism
	Rethinking the Public Interest: First Point, Acceptable (and Unacceptable) Criticisms
	Rethinking the Public Interest: Second Point, Viable (Nomocratic) Universalism
	Final Remarks: The Ineliminability of the Concept of the Public Interest
	References
Chapter 7: Rethinking Scholarship on Planning Ethics
	Introduction
	Conceptualising Planning’s Dominant Focus on Normative Ethics
	Turning Our ‘Gaze’ to Southern Epistemologies of Ethical Actions
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Communicative Planning
	Core Ideas and Progress of Communicative Planning
	Communicative Planning and Citizen Participation
	The Planner Role
	Legitimizing Communicative Planning
	Debates and Critique
	Concluding Remarks
	References
Chapter 9: Neoliberal Planning
	Pioneering
	Normalizing
	Established Tools and Policies
	Crisis and Its Aftermath
	Past the Political?
	What next?
	References
Chapter 10: Neo-Pragmatist Planning Theory
	Introduction
	Pragmatism and Planning Theory
	Postmodern Critique
	Pragmatism Unbound
	Cosmopolitan Pragmatism
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 11: Urban Planning and Social Justice
	Giving Priority to Justice
	The Role of Planning
	The Process/Outcome Debate
	The Potential for Reform under Capitalism
	Diversity and Justice
	Environmentalism and Equity
	What Can Be Done?
	Notes
	References
Chapter 12: The Grassroots of Planning: Poor People’s Movements,
Political Society, and the Question of Rights
	A Theory of the City
	Urban Citizens
	Poor People’s Movements
	From Waste to Human
	Beyond Neoliberalization
	References
Chapter 13: The Dilemmas of Diversity: Gender, Race and Ethnicity
in Planning Theory
	Introduction
	Gender Theory
	Gender and Planning Theory
	Race and Ethnicity
	Race, Ethnicity and Planning Theory
	Critiques and Dilemmas
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 14: Postcolonial Consequences and New Meanings
	Introduction
	Postcolonial Theorizing: A Short Overview and Some Qualifications
	Seeing from Elsewhere: The Ethico-Political Commitment of Postcolonial Theorizing
	Identity and Difference in Postcolonial Theorizing
	Representation, Resistance and the Politics of Recognition
	Planning and the Production of Colonial Space
	The Challenge: Decolonizing Planning Theory?
	References
Chapter 15: Postpolitics and Planning
	Diagnosing the “Postpolitical Condition”
	The Postpolitics of Planning
	Some Criticisms
	Potentials for Further Development
	Concluding Discussion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 16: ‘Cultural Work’ and the Remaking of Planning’s ‘Apparatus of Truth’
	Raiding Foucault’s Toolbox
	Planning’s Foucault and His Discontents
	From Discursive Formations to the Problematic Apparatus of Planning
	Efficiency Effects? Understanding the Disciplinary Micro-Politics of Planning Reform
	Exploring the Contribution of ‘Cultural Work’
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 17: Countering ‘The Dark Side’ of Planning: Power, Governmentality, Counter-Conduct
	Introduction
	Planning and Foucault
	Foucault and the ‘Dark Side of Planning’
	The Subject and Power
	Counter-Conducts
	Conflict, Counter-Conducts, Subjectification
	Planning’s Counter-Conducts: Developments and Openings
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 18: Co-Evolutionary Planning Theory: Evolutionary Governance
Theory and Its Relatives
	Introduction
	Co-Evolution in Social Theory
	Co-Evolution in Planning Theory
	Co-Evolution in Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT)
	Governance Configurations: Formal and Informal Institutions
	Governance Configurations: Power/Knowledge
	Object and Subject Formation
	Path, Inter and Goal Dependencies
	Final Thoughts
	References
PART III: Networks, Flows, Relationships and Institutions
Chapter 19: The Governance of Planning: Flexibly Networked, Yet Institutionally Grounded
	Introduction: Governance as an Analytical Concept in Planning Theories
	From Government to Governance
	The Path Dependence of Governance Practices
	The Legitimacy of Governance Networks?
	Neoliberal Governance in Planning Theory
	Governance in Practice: Soft and Hard Planning
	Concluding Remarks
	References
Chapter 20: New Institutionalism and Planning Theory
	Core Concepts in NI
	The Three Major Branches
	HI and Planning Theory
	Acknowledgments
	References
Chapter 21: Conflict and Agonism
	Introduction
	Critical Planning Theory – Now
	The Agon of Agonism
	Conflict, Consensus, Hegemony, Politics – ‘The Ineradicable Antagonism’ and the ‘War of Position’
	War of Position, Hegemony, Agonism – and Planning
	Critical Paths Using Mouffe
	Dissensus, the Inadmissible, Politics – and Planning
	Conflict and Agonism as an Inadmissible – and Planning
	Outlook – Agonism and Futures?
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 22: Insurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s)
	Insurgent Planning: An Ontological Break with Liberal Inclusive Planning
	A Theoretical Elaboration: Invited and Invented Spaces of Action and Misconceptions about Them
	Imagination and the Urgency in Decolonizing the Future
	Conclusion: The Way Forward
	Notes
	References
Chapter 23: Hegemonic Planning and Marginalizing People
	Introduction
	Theories on the Planning of Oppression and Marginalization
	Three Cases of Oppression and Marginalization
	Planning, Oppression, and Marginalization: The Dearth of Theory
	Theorizing Hegemonic Planning: Outlining a Future Theoretical Direction
	References
Chapter 24: Actor-Network Theory
	Introduction
	Origins and Applications
	Key Concepts and Dynamics
	Modes of Researching and Arguing
	Critiques and Responses
	Future Directions
	References
Chapter 25: Spatial Planning and the Complexity of Turbulent, Open Environments: About Purposeful Interventions in a World of Non-Linear Change
	About Planning, a Biased Mindset and the Idea of Change
	Time, Non-Linearity and the Complexity Sciences
	Settlements as Non-Linear Dynamic Systems
	Framing Dynamics
	Bifurcations and Transitions
	Complexity and the Planning Debate
	Synopsis
	References
Chapter 26: Assemblage Thinking in Planning Theory
	Introduction
	What Is Assemblage Theory?
	What Does Assemblage Theory Do for Planning Theory (and What Does It Not Do)?
	Content Theories as Actualizations of Assemblage Theory
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 27: Lines of Becoming
	Introduction
	On Expecting a Non-essentialist Unexpected
	How Is Becoming? What Does Becoming Do?
	Becomings-minor
	Becoming-Woman
	Becoming-Animal
	Pragmatics
	Emergent Law: Becoming-Law?
	Strategic Spatial Planning: Planning for Not Having a Plan?
	On Revolutionary-Becoming
	In Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Index