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Reviving Critical Planning Theory: Dealing with Pressure, Neo-liberalism, and Responsibility in Communicative Planning book cover

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Reviving Critical Planning Theory Dealing with Pressure, Neo-liberalism, and Responsibility in Communicative Planning

By Tore Øivin Sager Copyright 2013
360 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge
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Discussing some of the most vexing criticism of communicative planning theory (CPT), this book goes on to suggest how theorists and planners can respond to it. Looking at issues of power, politics and ethics in relation to planning, this book is for both critics and advocates of CPT, with lessons for all.  With severe criticisms being raised against CPT, the need has arisen to... Read more

Introduction: On Critiques and Evolutions of Communicative Planning Theory  Part 1: Counteracting Non-Deliberative Stakeholder Pressure  1. Legitimizing Communicative Planning  2. The Logic of Critical Communicative Planning: Transaction Cost Alteration  3. Activist Modes of Planning: A Systematic Overview  4. Activist Communicative Planning: Hybrids of Dialogue and Strategy  Part 2: The Neo-Liberal Challenge  5. Neo-liberal Policies in Urban Planning  6. Conflicting Values of Communicative Planning Theory and New Public Management  7. A Strategy for Examining whether Communicative Planning is Serving Neo-liberalism  Part 3: Responsibilities  8. Responsibility for End-use of Theory  9. Responsibility for Inclusive Deliberation in Planning: Struggling with Deep Difference  10. Responsible Decisions in Planning Theory, Teaching and Academic Life

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Tore Øivin Sager

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