Values and Planning

ISBN-13: 9781138268951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

Huw Thomas

Opis

An examination of the may ways values of various kinds permeate the planning process and their implications for policy and practice.

Recenzje

’It should be essential reading for student planners...Huw Thomas must be thanked for bringing together an authoritative international collection.’ Planning Practice & Research ’...interesting and useful collection of essays...’ Environment and Planning A ’As someone who scoured the library shelves in a desperate search for contemporary texts that applied ethical and moral thinking to the planning context, I welcome this collection of essays. They are thoughtfully written and provide students with an important and reasonably accessible set of ideas.’ Town Planning Review

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Environmental ethics and the field of planning: alternative theories and middle-range principles; Aesthetics in planning; Values in the past: conserving heritage; Environmental issues and the public interest; Planning and justice; Values, subjectivity, sex; The moral mandate of the profession of planning; Political judgement and learning about value in transportation planning: bridging Habermas and Aristotle; Values and planning education.

O autorze

Huw Thomas