The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory : Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Jean Hillier; Part 1 Conceptual Challenges from Perspectives on Spatial Planning: Introduction, Patsy Healey; Governance, space and politics: exploring the governmentality of planning, Enrico Gualini; Informality and the politics of planning, Ananya Roy; Coexistence; planning and the challenge of indigenous rights, Richard Howitt and Gaim James Lunkapis; Problematizing planning: critical and effective genealogies, Margo Huxley; Is this how it is, or is this how it is here? Making sense of politics in planning, Wytske Versteeg and Maarten Hajer; Role conflict: planners torn between dialogical ideals and neo-liberal realities, Tore Sager; Enhancing creativity and action orientation in planning, Louis Albrechts. Part 2 Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning Theory: Introduction, Jean Hillier; Cities and nations, Manuel DeLanda; Modulation of singularities - a complexity approach to planning competitions, Joris E. van Wezemael; Community enterprises: imagining and enacting alternatives to capitalism, J.K. Gibson-Graham and Jenny Cameron; Trouble with nature: 'ecology as the new opium for the masses' Erik Swyngedouw; Urbanity, (neo)vitalism and becoming, John PlA¸ger; Necessary dreaming: uses of utopia in urban planning, David Pinder. Part 3 Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning in Complexity: Introduction, Jean Hillier; Governance and planning: a pragmatic approach, Niraj Verma; Coping with the irreducible uncertainties of planning: an evolutionary approach, Luca Bertolini; Cybernetic spatial planning: steering, managing or just letting go?, Nikos Karadimitriou; Strategic navigation in an ocean of theoretical and practice complexity, Jean Hillier; Index.