Planning in Postmodern Times

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Psychology Press, 2001 - 280 páginas
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. One area that has been largely immune to such developments has been urban planning.

This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective and explores alternative conceptions based on a combination of postmodern thinking and other fields of social theory. In doing so, it exposes some of the limits of postmodern social theory while providing an alternative conception of planning in the 21st century.

This title will appeal to anyone interested in how we think and act in relation to cities, urban planning and governance.

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RETHINKING PLANNING the legacy of the Enlightenment
1
WHAT IS THE POSTMODERN? social theory
25
WHAT IS THE POSTMODERN? new times
55
IS PLANNING A MODERN PROJECT?
91
RESPONSES TO NEW TIMES different paradigms for a new planning 1
121
RESPONSES TO NEW TIMES different paradigms for a new planning 2
155
THE SCOPE FOR A NEW POSTMODERN PLANNING theory
189
THE SCOPE FOR A NEW POSTMODERN PLANNING practice
227
CONCLUSIONS
257
BIBLIOGRAPHY
263
INDEX
278
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