1st Edition
Urban Planning’s Philosophical Entanglements The Rugged, Dialectical Path from Knowledge to Action
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Knowledge and Action: Can We Urban Planners Really Connect Them?
Part I. Knowledge and Expertise
Chapter 2. The Knowledge-Action Problem
Chapter 3. What Does It Mean to "Know"
Chapter 4. Certainty and Uncertainty in Science
Chapter 5. The Inescapable in Cultural Knowledge
Chapter 6. Self- Knowledge and Self-Transformation
Part II. Knowledge and Action
Chapter 7. Theory of Action
Chapter 8. Social Action
Part III. The Nature of Professional Action in Urban Planning
Chapter 9. A Final Philosophical Entanglement – Space/Place
Chapter 10. What is to be done?
Epilogue
Biography
Richard Bolan has a 60-year career in urban planning. Graduating from Yale, MIT and NYU, he was a practitioner for ten years before joining the faculty at Boston College. Since 1985 he has been a faculty member in the Humphrey School at the University of Minnesota. His focus has been teaching and research in planning theory.
