Foundations of the Planning Enterprise

Jean Hillier is Associate Dean and Chair of Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and Patsy Healey is Emeritus Professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

• Contents: Introduction; Part I The 'Project' of Planning Theory: Introduction; 2 centuries of planning theory: an overview, John Friedmann; What is planning theory?, Andreas Faludi; If planning is everything maybe it's nothing, Aaron Wildavsky; Dilemmas in a general theory of planning, Horst Rittel and Melvin M. Webber; Comparison of current planning theories: counterparts and contradictions, Barclay M. Hudson, with comments by Thomas D. Galloway and Jerome L. Kaufman; Theoretical debates in planning: towards a coherent dialogue, Patsy Healey, Glenn McDougall and Michael J. Thomas; Towards a new typology of urban planning theories, O. Yiftachel; Without a net: modernist planning and the postmodern abyss, Robert A. Beauregard; New directions in planning theory, Susan S. Fainstein. Part II Inspirational Precursors: Introduction; The town-country magnet, Ebenezer Howard; Civics: as concrete and applied sociology, part II, P. Geddes; The myth of megalopolis, Lewis Mumford; TVA and democratic planning, Philip Selznick; Planning and democracy F.A. Hayek ; The concept of social control: planning as the rational mastery of the irrational, Karl Mannheim. Part III Planning as Rational Scientific Management: Introduction; A choice theory of planning, Paul Davidoff and Thomas A. Reiner; The science of 'muddling through', Charles E. Lindblom; The guidance and control of change: physical planning as the control of complex systems, J.Brian McLoughlin; The rationale of planning theory, Andreas Faludi; Advocacy and pluralism in planning, Paul Davidoff ; Social planning, social planners and planned societies, John W. Dyckman; A ladder of citizen participation, Sherry R. Arnstein; Examining the policy-action relationship, Susan Barrett and Colin Fudge; Foundations, John Friend and Allen Hickling; Re-examining the international diffusion of planning, Stephen V. Ward; Name index.

'...one of the most comprehensive collections about planning theory ever published. The collection offers readers...an easy access to some of the most influential essays on which these discussions are frequently based, putting them in their historical context, not only in the planning field but also on the wider intellectual history of the philosophy of social science...' European Planning Studies