Overview

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.

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Author:   Philip Allmendinger ,  Mark Tewdwr-Jones ,  Matthew Wargent
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9781032515687

ISBN 10:   1032515686
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   26 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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

Reviews

‘Planning theory needs to be recurrently challenged and unsettled to avoid becoming ossified and to remain relevant. This volume provides thought-provoking contributions that challenge taken-for-granted truths and contribute a much-needed radical edge to contemporary debates in the field.’ Jonathan Metzger, Professor of Urban and Regional Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden ‘This timely and well-curated collection of papers brings together contributions from many parts of the world to critically engage with alternative ways of thinking in and about planning, and to highlight some important areas that have yet to be interrogated by planning scholars. It is a welcome sequel to the 2002 Planning Futures, offering a wider range of perspectives from the flourishing international field of planning theories and practices.’ Simin Davoudi, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University, UK ’Why is planning theory ""tolerated by planning academics, endured by students, and ignored by practitioners?"" Drawing on a wide geographic and disciplinary range of voices, this timely collection both enriches current debates, while charting possible new and creative trajectories for the future.’ Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, USA

Author Information

Philip Allmendinger is Professor of Land Economy and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Education at the University of London, UK. Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Professor of Cities and Regions at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, UK. Matthew Wargent is a lecturer in Urban Planning and Development at Cardiff University, UK.

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