Review: Urban and Regional Planning Series 29. Planning Theory: Prospects for the 1980s, Urban and Regional Planning Series 27. Critical Readings in Planning Theory, Integration and Division: Geographical Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Problem, Urban Geography: A First Approach, Housing Policy and Practice, the Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1137-1148
Author(s):  
M Batty ◽  
D Cartwright ◽  
S A Royle ◽  
C Paris ◽  
M Storper
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Theory Integration ◽  
Employment Decline

Planning Ethics in the Age of Wicked Problems

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Chan Kok Hui
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Administrative Discretion ◽  
Planning Techniques ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
The Face ◽  
Plan Making

Ever since the publication of Rittel and Webber's Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning in 1973, the discourse on wicked problems has grown steadily in planning and other disciplines. Despite this, there has been little attention paid to the ethical dimensions of wicked problems. What are the ethical dimensions of wicked problems in planning and specifically, in e-planning? To answer this question, the author examines planning ethics in relation to the discourse on wicked problems. Following Hendler's framework (2001) on planning ethics, which comprises of five distinct discourses—namely, (i) the ethics of everyday behavior; (ii) the ethics of administrative discretion; (iii) the ethics of planning techniques; (iv) plan making; (v) normative planning theory—the author discusses each in relation to the discourse of wicked problems to draw out their ethical dimensions in the context of urban and regional planning. Through these discussions, the author argues that e-planning should engage with the discourse of planning ethics, and further, that e-planning can begin to develop its own ethical discourse in the face of wicked problems in planning today.

Devolving Housing Policy and Practice in Northern Ireland 1998-2002

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRIS PARIS ◽  
PADDY GRAY ◽  
JENNY MUIR
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice

Planning Ethics in the Age of Wicked Problems

2015 ◽  
pp. 36-56
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Chan Kok Hui
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Administrative Discretion ◽  
Planning Techniques ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
The Face ◽  
Plan Making

Ever since the publication of Rittel and Webber's Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning in 1973, the discourse on wicked problems has grown steadily in planning and other disciplines. Despite this, there has been little attention paid to the ethical dimensions of wicked problems. What are the ethical dimensions of wicked problems in planning and specifically, in e-planning? To answer this question, the author examines planning ethics in relation to the discourse on wicked problems. Following Hendler's framework (2001) on planning ethics, which comprises of five distinct discourses—namely, (i) the ethics of everyday behavior; (ii) the ethics of administrative discretion; (iii) the ethics of planning techniques; (iv) plan making; (v) normative planning theory—the author discusses each in relation to the discourse of wicked problems to draw out their ethical dimensions in the context of urban and regional planning. Through these discussions, the author argues that e-planning should engage with the discourse of planning ethics, and further, that e-planning can begin to develop its own ethical discourse in the face of wicked problems in planning today.

scholarly journals Land-Use Planning Methodology and Middle-Ground Planning Theories

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Lagopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Procedural Planning ◽  
Planning Methodology ◽  
Planning Approaches

This paper argues that a monolithic land-use planning “grand narrative” is not sufficiently flexible, but that the fragmentation into innumerable “small narratives” goes against any sense of the existence of an established domain of knowledge. Its aim is to explore the epistemological possibility for “middle ground” theories. The methodology adopted for this purpose is to take as a standard reference the methodological components of comprehensive/procedural planning and to measure against them the methodologies proposed by a corpus of other major land-use planning approaches. The outcome of this comparison is that for more than half a century, planning theories in the field of urban and regional planning have been revolving incessantly around the methodological components of the comprehensive model, which seem, at least at the present stage of our knowledge, to be the universal nucleus of the land-use planning enterprise. This paper indicates on this basis the prerequisites for the construction of middle-ground land-use planning theories and how we can pass from the formal contextual variants to real life contexts through the original articulation of planning theory with input from the findings of the actual planning systems.

scholarly journals Decolonizing regional planning from the Global South: Active geographies and social struggles in Northeastern Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 026377582110246
Author(s):  
Federico Ferretti
Keyword(s):  
Regional Planning ◽  
Global South ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Literature ◽  
The South ◽  
Political Conservatism ◽  
Colonial Histories ◽  
Resisting Oppression

This paper addresses the engagement of critical geographers from Northeastern Brazil with regional planning, aiming at transforming society by acting on their region’s spaces. Extending and putting in relation literature on planning theory in the Global South and geographical scholarship on decoloniality, I explore new archives showing how the planning work that these geographers performed from 1957 to 1964 was an example of the ‘South’ re-elaborating and putting into practice notions arising from ‘international’ literature, such as that of ‘active geography’, and pioneering critical uses of instruments, such as mappings and statistics, that have often been associated with technocracy and political conservatism. Connected with peasants’ struggles and with a theoretical framework that is cognisant of the colonial histories and insurgent Black and indigenous traditions in the Northeast, these geographers’ works show that there is no ‘Southern Theory’ without a concrete engagement of scholars with social and political problems, one which is not limited to ‘participation’, but aims at challenging the political powers in place. Although not devoid of contradictions that are analysed here, the experiences of these Southern geographers acting in and for the South can provide precious insights into current (Northern or Southern) scholarly programmes aimed at resisting oppression.

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