This is an updated and revised second edition of the leading planning theory textbook. It is accessibly written, up-to-date text. It provides a wide-ranging analysis of planning theory and broad international scope of coverage of theories and practice examples. Planning theory has undergone signific[...]
Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baudrillard and Lyotard have challenged existing ideas about power and rationality in society. This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective a[...]
Spatial planning, strongly advocated by government and the profession, is intended to be more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to sustainable development than previous approaches. In what the authors refer to as the New Spatial Planning, there is a fairly r[...]