Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory

Michael Gunder FNZPI is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand. From 2011–2015, he was Managing Editor of Planning Theory and remains an editor. His research draws on poststructuralism to analyse the ideological dimensions of built environment public policies and related narratives.Ali Madanipour is Professor of Urban Design and a founding member of the Global Urban Research Unit at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. His four-volume edited collection, Planning Theory, was published in 2015 in Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Built Environment series.Vanessa Watson is Professor of Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, holding a PhD from the University of Witwatersrand, and is a University Fellow. She is a founder and on the Board of the African Centre for Cities at UCT.

• Planning Theory: An IntroductionMichael Gunder, Ali Madanipour, Vanessa WatsonPart I: Contemporary Planning Practices Spatial Planning: The Promised Land or Rolled-Out Neoliberalism? Simin DavoudiStrategic Planning: Ontological and Epistemological ChallengesLouis AlbrechtsGrowth Management Theory: From the Garden City to Smart Growth Jill L. GrantPlanning in the AnthropoceneWilliam E. ReesPart II: How Meaning/Values are Constructed in Planning The Public InterestStefano MoroniRethinking Scholarship on Planning Ethics Tanja Winkler Communicative Planning Tore Sager Neoliberal PlanningGuy BaetenNeo Pragmatist Planning TheoryCharles HochUrban Planning and Social Justice Susan S. FainsteinThe Grassroots of Planning: Poor People's Movements, Political Society, and the Question of RightsAnanya RoyThe Dilemmas of Diversity: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Planning TheorySuzanne Speak and Ashok KumarPostcolonial Consequences and New MeaningsLibby PorterPostpolitics and PlanningJonathan Metzger‘Cultural Work’ And the Remaking of Planning’s ‘Apparatus of Truth’Andy InchCountering ‘The Dark Side’ of Planning: Power, Governmentality, Counter-ConductMargo HuxleyCo- Evolutionary Planning Theory: Evolutionary Governance Theory and Its RelativesKristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn DuineveldPart III: Networks, Flows, Relationships and Institutions Flexibly Networked, Yet Institutionally Grounded: The Governance of PlanningRaine Mäntysalo and Pia Bäcklund New Institutionalism and Planning TheoryAndré SorensenConflict and AgonismJohn PløgerInsurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s) Faranak MiraftabState Hegemonic Planning and the Marginalization and Oppression of PeopleYosef JabareenActor-Network TheoryYvonne RydinSpatial Planning and the Complexity of Turbulent, Open Environments: About Purposeful Interventions in a World of Non-Linear ChangeGert de RooAssemblage Thinking in Planning TheoryJoris Van WezemaelLines of BecomingJean Hillier

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