Compromise planning : a theoretical approach from a distant corner of Europe / / Louis C. Wassenhoven

• Autore: Wassenhoven Louis C.
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (421 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.1209495
• Soggetto topico: City planning; Regional planning
• Soggetto geografico: Greece
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Preface -- About the Book -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- About the Author -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1: Introduction - Defining the Problem -- 1.1 Spatial Planning -- 1.2 Space -- 1.3 Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: Review of Theories -- Chapter 2: Planning Theories: Typologies and Overcrowding -- 2.1 Origins of Planning Theory -- 2.2 Urban Planning Under Attack -- 2.3 Planning Theory Typologies: Theories in, of, for, on and about Planning and Faludi's Legacy -- 2.4 Planning Theory Yes, but What About Practice? -- 2.5 The Traditions Underpinning Planning Theory and the Early John Friedmann -- 2.6 Yiftachel's Typology -- 2.7 The "Communicative" Challenge -- 2.8 Planning Theory as Textbook Material -- 2.9 Critical Stances -- 2.10 An Inheritance of Confusion -- 2.11 Towards a More Lucid Categorization of Theories? -- 2.12 An Effort to Simplify the Prepositional Game: Currents of Ideas and Types of Planning -- 2.13 Charles Hoch's Pragmatism and Ernest Alexander's Contingency Model -- References -- Chapter 3: Mainstream Theories: The Rational and Communicative Currents -- 3.1 The Rational Current -- 3.1.1 The Heritage of Rational Planning -- 3.1.2 Rationalism and Its Critics -- 3.1.3 Rational Planning, Its Historical Roots and Its Resilient Persistence -- 3.1.4 Statutory Planning and Its Rational Foundations -- 3.1.5 Planning, Power and the State -- 3.1.6 Planning's "Scientific" Methods and Techniques -- 3.1.7 Systems Thinking -- 3.1.8 Rational Planning Abandoned, but for How Long? -- 3.2 The Communicative Current -- 3.2.1 Communicative and Collaborative Planning -- 3.2.2 Conceptual Foundations -- 3.2.3 The Role of Plans and the Public Interest -- 3.2.4 Objections to, and Weaknesses of, Collaborative Planning -- 3.2.5 Uneasy Similarities of Communicative and Rational Planning. ; 3.2.6 Complementarities and Integration of Theories -- 3.3 Pragmatism -- References -- Chapter 4: Theoretical Challenges: The Radical Current and Southern Theory -- 4.1 The Radical Current -- 4.1.1 The Radical Turn -- 4.1.2 Planners, Activism and Transformative Planning -- 4.1.3 Ethics and Justice -- 4.1.4 Planning for Development -- 4.1.5 Informal Planning -- 4.1.6 Militant Planning for Change -- 4.1.7 Movements: Feminism and "Othering" -- 4.1.8 Agonism and Antagonism -- 4.2 Southern Theory -- 4.3 Neoliberalism -- References -- Chapter 5: The "Climate" Current: Environmental Concerns in the Anthropocene Age -- 5.1 Climate Change and Planning in Simple Language -- 5.2 Environment, Sustainability, and First Steps Towards a Climate Current Theory -- 5.3 Risks and Resilience -- 5.4 Being in the Anthropocene Age -- 5.5 A Greek Example -- References -- Part II: Greece as a Case Study -- Chapter 6: Greece: On the Edge of North and South - A Historical Perspective -- 6.1 Independence and Dependence, Nationalism, and Foreign Powers -- 6.2 National Lands, First Development Efforts, Bankruptcies and Defeats -- 6.3 Social Classes, Greeks of the Diaspora, Emerging Elite and Cities -- 6.4 The Asia Minor Disaster and the Influx of Refugees -- 6.5 Second World War, German Occupation, and Civil War -- 6.6 Development and Reconstruction -- 6.7 Stability, Affluence, and Renewed Crisis -- References -- Chapter 7: The State as a Crucial Parameter for the Interpretation of Planning -- 7.1 The Formation of the Nation State -- 7.2 The Size of the State -- 7.3 Legislation -- 7.4 State, Populism and Patronage -- 7.5 Societal Attitudes and the State-Society Nexus -- References -- Chapter 8: The Greek Planning System: A Case Study at the Tip of the Balkan Peninsula -- 8.1 The Legacy of the Past and Its Impact on Planning -- 8.2 First Steps of Town Planning. ; 8.3 Ground-Breaking Town Planning Legislation in the Interwar Period -- 8.4 The Unfinished Decade of the 1960s and the Emergence of Regional Planning -- 8.5 Athens -- 8.6 Regional Development -- 8.7 Network of Urban Centres -- 8.8 Planning Legislation in the 1970s and 1980s and the Operation of Town Planning Reorganization -- 8.9 Realities on the Ground and Out-of-Plan Building Activity -- 8.10 Legal Quandaries -- 8.11 European Union -- 8.12 Resuscitation of Regional Spatial Planning in the 1990s and New Planning Instruments -- 8.13 The Apogee of External Pressure After the Economic Crisis and the Parallel System of Planning -- 8.14 The Rational and Hierarchical Edifice of Greek Planning -- 8.15 Spatial Planning, Environment and Natural Disasters -- References27 -- Part III: A Theory of Compromise Planning -- Chapter 9: Planners, Knowledge Transfer, Planning Culture: Looking for a New Theory -- 9.1 A Personal Journey -- 9.2 A Précis of Conditions in Greece and Imported Planning Tools -- 9.3 The Profile of Planners -- 9.4 The Culture of Planning and the Greek Peculiarity -- 9.5 Greece: A Sui Generis Case? -- 9.6 Compromise, Collaboration, Pragmatism and Improvisation -- 9.7 Basis for a Theoretical Model -- References -- Chapter 10: Compromise Planning and Homo Individualis -- 10.1 The Solace of Pragmatism -- 10.2 A Native Greek Theoretical Debate -- 10.3 Homo Economicus and Homo Socialis -- 10.4 Critical Realism, Places and Fables -- 10.5 More Homines, Structure and Human Agents -- 10.6 The Person Next Door: Homo Individualis -- 10.7 Bacκ to the Task of Building a Planning Theory: The Greek Planning Model -- 10.8 The Public Interest as a Planning Compass -- 10.9 Spatial Planning -- 10.10 Rationality and Exceptionalism -- 10.11 The Theorist and the Theoretical Model -- References. ; Chapter 11: Conclusions: The Parallel Worlds of Planning - Variants of Compromise -- 11.1 Janus-Faced Compromise -- 11.2 The State and Its Pivotal Role -- 11.3 The Ugly Face of Planning and Hopes for the Future -- 11.4 The Construction of a Theoretical Framework -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Compromise Planning
• ISBN: 9783030943318; 9783030943301
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910556894503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II