Planning in postmodern times
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Planning in postmodern times
(The RTPI library series)
Routledge, 2001
- : pbk.
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. 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 twenty-first century.
This title will appeal to anyone interested in how we think and act in relation to cities, urban planning and governance.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Rethinking Planning: The Legacy of the Enlightenment. Chapter 2 - What is the Postmodern? 1: Social Theory. Chapter 3 - What is the Postmodern? - 2: New Times. Chapter 4 - Is Planning a Modern Project. Chapter 5 - Responses to New Times - Different Paradigms for New Planning 1. Chapter 6 - Responses to New Times - Different Paradigms for New Planning 2. Chapter 7 - The Scope for a New Postmodern Planning - Theory. Chapter 8 - The Scope for a New Postmodern Planning - Practice. Chapter 9 - Conclusions. Bibliography.
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