The Democratic plan: analysis and diagnosis
by March, Alan
Despite ongoing technical and professional advances, urban and regional planning is often far less effective than we might hope. Conflicting approaches and variable governmental settings have undermined planning's legitimacy and allowed its goals to be eroded and co-opted in the face of mounting challenges. Deeper organising principles for self-understanding, action and productive critique are lacking. This book takes steps toward resolving these problems by providing a clear theoretical positi…
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- Full title :The Democratic plan : analysis and diagnosis / Alan March.
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Despite ongoing technical and professional advances, urban and regional planning is often far less effective than we might hope. Conflicting approaches and variable governmental settings have undermined planning's legitimacy and allowed its goals to be eroded and co-opted in the face of mounting challenges. Deeper organising principles for self-understanding, action and productive critique are lacking. This book takes steps toward resolving these problems by providing a clear theoretical position to practically examine urban planning systems within democratic governance settings: the basis of.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate Publishing Ltd
- Place of Publication:Farnham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (203 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781409449126, 1409449122
- oclc:ocn804662128
- LC Classification:HT391
- Dewey Decimal:307.1216
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Part I Putting Planning in its Democratic Place; 1 The Problem of Planning-as-Democracy; 2 Recognising Planning's Democratic Challenges; 3 Why Not Democratic Planning?; Part II Planning in a Place: Victoria, Australia; 4 Local Repetition, Metropolitan Vacuum; 5 The Local Knowledge that Repetition Makes; 6 Inclusion -- at the Expense of Collective Concern?; 7 Problems of Steering and Scale: From Individuals to the Centre; Part III Changing a Place: Prognosis to Prescription; 8 Critical Potential: Urban Planning as Democracy.
Appendix A A Checklist for Democratic Planning: Knowing and SteeringAppendix B Chronology of Victorian Planning; References; Index.
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