The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367331955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 362 str.

Michael Gunder; Ali Madanipour; Vanessa Watson

Opis

This handbook presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their specialized areas to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve as new challenges emerge.

O autorze

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.