Critical Planning Futures : New Directions in Planning Theory (Paperback)

1. Critical planning futures? 2. The ongoing unsettlement of planning thought: The difference that Settler-Colonial and Critical Indigenous Theory make? 3. Environment planning after decolonial critique: On politics of knowledge, freedom, and future? 4. Learning from the ‘south’: Towards a postcolonial narrative and understanding of informality? 5. Refugeescapes in planning theory: Refugee placemaking in Dhaka and Delhi? 6. Narrative approaches for Twenty-First Century planning? 7. The epistemic limits of planning participation? 8. A trek from instrumental and communicative rationality to emotional and symbolic involvement in urban planning and design? 9. Planning from a systems perspective at the frontier: Complexity in the past and present? 10. Ruptures and departures: an Emancipatory perspective on planning and technology? 11. The mistreatment of time in planning theory: Towards planning beyond the clock in a world increasingly out-of-sync? 12. Think far futures, act now: Reclaiming distant futures in planning education and practice? 13. Epilogue: In search of planning theory