A Future for Planning: Taking Responsibility for Twenty-First Century Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781138708808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Michael Harris; Victoria Pinoncely

Opis

A Future for Planning is an accessible, wide-ranging book that considers how planning practice and policy have been constrained by short-termism, as well as by a familiar lack of spatial thinking in policy, in response to major social, economic and environmental challenges.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. The Rise of the New Right and the Attack on Planning Challenge 1. Population Change and Urban Development Chapter 2. The New Right and Urban and Regional Planning Challenge 2. Climate Change Chapter 3. Failing to Face the Future: A Pathology of Failing to Plan (But Why We Still Can) Challenge 3. Economic and Technological Disruption Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Planning Challenge 4. Poor Governance and Political Instability Chapter 5. Planners and Policy-Makers Planning for the Future (Part I) Challenge 5. Systemic Risk Chapter 6. Planners and Policy-Makers Planning for the Future (Part II) Chapter 7. Back to the Future: Planning for the Long-Term in an Age of Crisis and Short-Termism

O autorze

Michael Harris is a researcher and writer who has worked across numerous sectors including education, technology, innovation, government, public services and urban planning. His research interests have included reforming education to harness the latest technologies, how businesses and organisations innovate in radical new ways, rethinking public services to better serve people’s needs, and challenging the closed development of government policy. Most recently he has focused on planning for future trends, such as climate change, population growth, and economic and technological disruption.