236 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberal restructuring. At the same time, 'culture' is nowadays seen as the world's key intellectual resource possessing new creative weight in sociological, economic and environmental terms. This book argues that, in the light of this cultural turn, there is the opportunity to re-position planning and proposes an original,... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 A Cultural Era; Chapter 3 Culture and Planning – A New Positionality; Chapter 4 Engaging Planning Theory; Chapter 5 Framing a Culturised Planning System and its Principles; Chapter 6 Designing Planning Literacies; Chapter 7 The Culturised System’s Research Method; Chapter 8 Illustrating the Culturised System; Chapter 9 Urban and Regional Planning, Sydney, NSW; Chapter 10 Strategic Planning for Protected Areas, Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania; Chapter 11 A Culturised Future;
Biography
Dr Greg Young, Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, australia.
'Greg Young's achievements are to be welcomed for showing how culture can be used to reformulate a more responsive planning system. The book reaches out to both theoreticians and practitioners, representing the author's experience drawing on Sydney and other cities, and his capacity to make perceptive connections with contemporary urban theorists.' Ronan Paddison, University of Glasgow, UK '...a significant contribution to the field...should be read by all planning theorists interested in exploring the boundaries of planning literature and practice.' Australian Planner
