1st Edition

Values and Planning

Edited By Huw Thomas Copyright 1994
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together a group of distinguished international authors to analyze and comment upon the various roles of evaluation and valued ideas, in planning and education of planners. Topics covered include the nature of aesthetic judgement and of practical judgement, the implications for planning of various theories of environmental ethics, and the significance of key concepts such as... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Environmental ethics and the field of planning: alternative theories and middle-range principles; Aesthetics in planning; Values in the past: conserving heritage; Environmental issues and the public interest; Planning and justice; Values, subjectivity, sex; The moral mandate of the profession of planning; Political judgement and learning about value in transportation planning: bridging Habermas and Aristotle; Values and planning education.

Biography

Huw Thomas

’It should be essential reading for student planners...Huw Thomas must be thanked for bringing together an authoritative international collection.’ Planning Practice & Research ’...interesting and useful collection of essays...’ Environment and Planning A ’As someone who scoured the library shelves in a desperate search for contemporary texts that applied ethical and moral thinking to the planning context, I welcome this collection of essays. They are thoughtfully written and provide students with an important and reasonably accessible set of ideas.’ Town Planning Review