Theories of urban planning

"Planning theory is the body of scientific concepts, definitions, behavioral relationships, and assumptions that define the body of knowledge of urban planning. There are eight procedural theories of planning that remain the principal theories of planning procedure today: the rational-comprehensive approach, the incremental approach, the transactive approach, the communicative approach, the advocacy approach, the equity approach, the radical approach, and the humanist or phenomenological approach." ^[1]

Readings in Planning Theory, 1st edition (1996)

Campbell, Scott, and Susan S. Fainstein, editors.

1. Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory / Scott Campbell and Susan S. Fainstein
2. Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier / Robert Fishman
3. The Glory, Destruction, and Meaning of the City Beautiful Movement / William H. Wilson
4. The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs
5. The Neutral City / Richard Sennett
6. Arguments for and Against Planning / Richard E. Klosterman
7. Planning the Capitalist City / Richard E. Foglesong
8. On Planning the Ideology of Planning / David Harvey
9. Can Selfishness Save the Environment? / Matt Ridley and Bobbi S. Low
10. Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of U. S. Planning / Robert A. Beauregard
11. Planning Through Debate: The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory / Patsy Healey.
12. City Planning and Political Values: An Updated View / Susan S. Fainstein and Norman Fainstein
13. The Science of "Muddling Through" / Charles E. Lindblom
14. Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning / Paul Davidoff
15. A Public Planning Perspective on Strategic Planning / Jerome L. Kaufman and Harvey M. Jacobs
16. A Retrospective View of Equity Planning: Cleveland, 1969-1979 / Norman Krumholz
17. What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases / John M. Levy
18. London's Motorways / Peter Hall
19. Coalition-building by a Regional Agency: Austin Tobin and the Port of New York Authority / Jameson W. Doig
20. Feminist Thoughts on the Theory and Practice of Planning / Marsha Ritzdorf
21. Knowing Women/Planning Theory / Helen Liggett
22. Planning in a Different Voice / Susan S. Fainstein.
23. Some Thoughts About Difference and Pluralism / Beth Moore Milroy
24. Feminist and Planning Theories: The Epistemological Connection / John Friedmann
25. Feminist Theory and Planning Theory: The Epistemological Linkages / Leonie Sandercock and Ann Forsyth
26. APA's Ethical Principles Include Simplistic Planning Theories / William H. Lucy
27. Risk Assessment and Environmental Crisis: Toward an Integration of Science and Participation / Frank Fischer
28. Learning from Practice Stories: The Priority of Practical Judgment / John Forester.

Readings in Planning Theory, 2nd edition (2003)

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Introduction. The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory / Scott Campbell and Susan S. Fainstein
Part I. Foundations of Twentieth-Century Planning
- 1. Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier / Robert Fishman
- 2. The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs
- 3. Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning / John Friedmann

Part II. Planning: Justifications and Critiques
- 4. Arguments For and Against Planning / Richard Klosterman
- 5. Planning the Capitalist City / Richard E. Foglesong
- 6. Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of U.S. Planning / Robert A. Beauregard
- 7. Authoritarian High Modernism / James C. Scott
- 8. Making Space: Planning as a Mode of Thought / David C. Perry.

Part III. Planning Types
- 9. New Directions in Planning Theory / Susan S. Fainstein
- 10. The Science of "Muddling Through" / Charles E. Lindblom
- 11. Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning / Paul Davidoff
- 12. Equitable Approaches to Local Economic Development / Norman Krumholz
- 13. The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation / Patsy Healey

Part IV. Planning in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies
- 14. What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases / John M. Levy
- 15. Community and Consensus: Reality and Fantasy in Planning / Howell S. Baum
- 16. Popular Planning: Coin Street, London: Tim Brindley, Yvonne Rydin, and Gerry Stoker
- 17. Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice / Bent Flyvbjerg.

Part V. Race, Gender, and City Planning
- 18. City Life and Difference / Iris Marion Young
- 19. Educating Planners: Unified Diversity for Social Action / June Manning Thomas
- 20. Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie / Dolores Hayden
- 21. Towards Cosmopolis: Utopia as Construction Site / Leonie Sandercock

Part VI. Ethics, the Environment, and Conflicting Priorities
- 22. APA's Ethical Principles Include Simplistic Planning Theories / William H. Lucy
- 23. Risk Assessment and Environmental Crisis: Toward an Integration of Science and Participation / Frank Fischer
- 24. Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development / Scott Campbell.

Readings in Planning Theory, 3nd edition (2011)

Susan S. Fainstein and Scott Campbell, editors.

Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory.
I. Foundations of 20th Century Planning Theory.
- Section Introduction.
- 1. Robert Fishman, Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier.
- 2. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
- 3. John Friedmann, The Good City: In Defense of Utopian Thinking.

II. Planning: Justifications and Critiques. Section Introduction.
- 4. Heather Campbell and Robert Marshall, Utilitarianism's Bad Breath? A Re-evalution of the Public Interest Justification for Planning.
- 5. Richard E. Foglesong, Planning the Capitalist City.
- 6. Leonie Sandercock, Mongrel Cities.
- 7. James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.
- 8. Tim Love, Urban design after Battery Park City.

III. Planning Types/Normative frameworks. Section Introduction.
- 9. Susan S. Fainstein, Planning Theory and the City.
- 10. Charles E. Lindblom, The Science of Muddling Through.
- 11. Paul Davidoff, Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning.
- 12. John Forester, Challenges of Deliberation and Participation.
- 13. Patsy Healey, Traditions of Planning Thought.

IV. Planning in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies. Section Introduction.
- 14. Matti Siemiatycki, Implications of Private-Public Partnerships on the Development of Urban Public Transit Infrastructure: The Case of Vancouver, Canada.
- 15. James deFilippis, Collective Ownership and Community Control and Development: The Long View.
- 16. Vivien Lowndes, Citizenship and Urban Politics.
- 17. Bent Flyvbjerg, Bringing Power to Planning Research: One Researcher's Praxis Story.

V. Race, Gender and City Planning. Section Introduction.
- 18. Iris Marion Young, Inclusion and Democracy.
- 19. June Manning Thomas, The Minority-race Planner in the Quest for a Just City.
- 20. Dolores Hayden, Nurturing: Home, Mom and Apple Pie.
- 21. Michael Frisch, Planning as a Heterosexist Project.

VI. Conflicting Priorities. Section Introduction.
- 22. Scott Campbell, Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development.
- 23. American Institute of Certified Planners, Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
- 24. Frank Fischer, Public Policy as Discursive Construct: Social Meaning and Multiple Realities.
- 25. Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson, Environmental Justice.
- 26. Margaret Kohn, The Mauling of Public Space.

VII Planning in a Globalized World. Section Introduction.
- 27. Ward Steven, Reexamining the International Diffusion of Planning.
- 28. Peter Evans, Political Strategies for More Livable Cities.
- 29. Yang Zheng and Ke Fang, Is history repeating itself? Urban Renewal in the United States to Inner-City Redevelopment in China.
- 30. Oren Yiftachel, Re-engaging Planning Theory? Towards 'South-Eastern' Perspectives.

Readings in Planning Theory, 4nd edition (2016)

Part I: The Development of Planning Theory
- Introduction
- 1. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier / Robert Fishman
- 2. Co-evolutions of Planning and Design: Risks and Benefits of Design Perspectives in Planning Systems / Harro de Jong
- 3. Authoritarian High Modernism / James C. Scott
- 4. The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs
- 5. Planning the Capitalist City / Richard E. Foglesong
- 6. The Three Historic Currents of City Planning / Peter Marcuse

Part II: What Are Planners Trying to Do? The Justifications and Critiques of Planning
- 7. The Planning Project / Patsy Healey
- 8. Urban Planning in an Uncertain World / Ash Amin
- 9. Arguments For and Against Planning / Richard E. Klosterman
- 10. Is There Space for Better Planning in a Neoliberal World? Implications for Planning Practice and Theory / Craig Watkins
- 11. Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development / Scott Campbell
- 12. Disasters, Vulnerability and Resilience of Cities / Brendan Gleeson
- 13. Spatial Justice and Planning / Susan S. Fainstein

Part III: Implications of Practice for Theory
- 14. The Neglected Places of Practice / Robert Beauregard
- 15. Home, Sweet Home: American Residential Zoning in Comparative Perspective / Sonia Hirt
- 16. Understanding Community Development in a "Theory of Action" Framework: Norms, Markets, Justice / Laura Wolf-Powers
- 17. Participatory Governance: From Theory to Practice / Frank Fischer
- 18. Cultivating Surprise and the Art of the Possible: The Drama of Mediating Differences / John Forester

Part IV: Wicked Problems in Planning: Identity, Difference, Ethics, and Conflict
- 19. Inclusion and Democracy / Iris Marion Young
- 20. Towards a Cosmopolitan Urbanism: From Theory to Practice / Leonie Sandercock
- 21. Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning / Paul Davidoff
- 22. The Minority-Race Planner in the Quest for a Just City / June Manning Thomas
- 23. The Past, Present, and Future of Professional Ethics in Planning / Martin Wachs
- 24. Insurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South / Faranak Miraftab

Part V: Planning in a Globalized World
- 25. Place and Place-Making in Cities: A Global Perspective / John Friedmann
- 26. Urban Informality: The Production of Space and Practice of Planning / Ananya Roy
- 27. Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe's Central Urban Issues / Vanessa Watson
- 28. Global Cities of the South: Emerging Perspectives on Growth and Inequality / Gavin Shatkin.

References

Notes

↑ Whittmore, Andrew (2015).

Campbell, Scott, and Susan S. Fainstein. Readings in Planning Theory (Wiley, 1996).

[1] Whittmore, Andrew (2015).

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