Planning in Postmodern Times (RTPI Library Series) - Softcover

Allmendinger, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415234239 ISBN 13: 9780415234238

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baudrillard and Lyotard have challenged existing ideas about power and rationality in society. This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective and explores alternative conceptions based on a combination of postmodern thinking and other fields of social theory. In doing so, it exposes some of the limits of postmodern social theory while providing an alternative conception of planning in the twenty-first century. This title will appeal to anyone interested in how we think and act in relation to cities, urban planning and governance.

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Philip Allmendinger

From the Back Cover

Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baudrillard and Lyotard have challenged existing ideas about power and rationality in society. One area that has been largely immune to such developments has been urban planning.

This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective and explores alternative conceptions based on a combination of postmodern thinking and other fields of social theory. In doing so, it exposes some of the limits of postmodern social theory while providing an alternative conception of planning in the 21st century.

This title will appeal to anyone interested in how we think and act in relation to cities, urban planning and governance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415234239
• ISBN 13: 9780415234238
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290