Publisher's Synopsis
The current landscape of planning theory is a mixture of theoretical perspectives dominated by post-empirical understandings. Theories range across neo-liberal and project-led planning, postmodernism, neo-pragmatism, and critical realism. These developments have led to new and exciting thinking but also to a questioning of central issues in planning, particularly power, rationality, ethics and professionalism, and practice and participation. The challenge now is to develop an understanding of planning which can direct and dissect planning practice.Written by an international range of theorists, Planning Futures explores the future directions of planning theory in all its contemporary manifestations and analyses how new perspectives can assist us in understanding the challenges the State and other interests face in regulating land use in the future.
