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The Planning Game: An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management book cover

1st Edition

The Planning Game An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management

By Alex Lord Copyright 2012
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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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 the debate. Dialogue between economics and planning theorists has been, until now, rare. Lord... Read more

Introduction  Part 1  1. Planning in the ‘Information Age’  2. Is There Something Wrong with Planning Theory?  3. Is There an Alternative Way of Understanding Planning?  4. The Infusion of Economics into Planning Thought  Part 2  5. Introducing the Planning Game  6. Conflict, Power and Risk  7. Bargaining, Negotiation and Tactics  8. Team Games, Coalitions and Collaboration  9. Putting the Planning Game in Context

Biography

Alex Lord worked in the financial services industry before completing a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester’s School of Environment and Development. He is currently lecturer in the Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool.

"The Planning Game will be of interest to planning theorists, and part II especially will be of interest to planning students looking for a different way to make sense of situations that planners face." – Journal of Planning Education and Research, Kieran P. Donaghy, Cornell University

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