Post-Rational Planning: A Solutions-Oriented Call to Justice

ISBN-13: 9780367257521 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 318 str.

Laura E. Tate

Opis

Post-Rational Planning examines planners’ unease with emotion and politics, advocating for more scholarship and practice capable of unpacking uses of rhetoric and framing to support or counter key planning decisions impacting social justice.

Spis treści

Part 1: A more needs-focused, post-rational approach. Introduction. Chapter 1: How and why rationality has informed public service. Chapter 2: New realities: Shifting contexts for planning. Chapter 3: Addressing public needs more effectively with better evidence. Part 2: Working beyond rationality. Chapter 4: Learning, planning and policy. Chapter 5: Better, more meaningful public engagement. Chapter 6: Strategic communication in planning and policy. Chapter 7: Saying things more impactfully- pragmatic techniques. Part 3: Advancing more media awareness. Chapter 8: Social media, planning and policy. Chapter 9: Legacy or published media.

O autorze

Laura E. Tate combines scholarship and practice backgrounds in urban planning and public health. While conducting her research for this book, she taught urban planning and policy in the United States, as a Visiting Lecturer at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, and at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Before that, she worked professionally in Canada, at several Metro Vancouver area cities and for several British Columbia government agencies, including assignments as a Manager of Growth Strategies, Director of Aboriginal Healthy Living, as well as work funding community mental wellness and substance use initiatives in British Columbia. Laura currently works with her partner on a green subdivision using site adaptive planning principles in suburban Victoria, while also providing consulting services. She has a doctorate in planning from the University of British Columbia, and has continued to publish in peer-reviewed planning journals on effectively using evidence and qualitative research. She has co-edited two other books: Planning for AuthentiCITIES (Routledge, New York, 2018), with Brettany Shannon; and Actor Networks of Planning (Routledge, London, 2016), with Yvonne Rydin.