Critical Planning and Design Roots, Pathways, and Frames

The book interprets and recombines, within a subjective trajectory, some roots, pathways and conceptual frames of the planning thought that worked either as dissenting imaginations or generative source to critically question the modernist epistemologies. ‘Critical planning and design’ is presented i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Perrone, Camilla (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:The Urban Book Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Critical planning and design: Walking through roots and dissenting imaginations
  • Part 1: Roots
  • Giancarlo Paba’s trilogy of Luoghi comuni (Common Places, 1998), Movimenti urbani (Urban Movements, 2003), Corpi urbani (Urban Bodies, 2010): Influential Italian ‘critical planning’ thinking
  • Ildefonso Cerdà, Teoría General de la Urbanización, 1867: An innovative approach
  • L’Ordine politico della Comunità (The Political Order of Community) 2014: Concrete community and territorial principle in Adriano Olivetti’s thought
  • All the layers of an ecological commitment at the frontier: Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969
  • L' Architecture de survie (1978) is back talking to EU cities in crisis: The provocative message by Yona Friedman as a key for the present and future urban agenda
  • Part 2: Planning pathways
  • John Friedmann, The Good Society (1979): Panning pathways for a just society
  • David Harvey’s Urbanization of Capital (1985): Why it helped me so much
  • A place in the world? Places, Cultures and Globalization, 1995. Doreen Massey’s lessons: Is the world really shrinking or is the geography of the world teaching us openness and diversity?
  • Patsy Healey and Collaborative Planning (2005): Re-thinking democracy in the ‘reasoning in public’ arena
  • Utopian tension: Sandercock’s inspiring journey “Towards Cosmopolis” (1998)
  • Zwischenstadt / Inbetween city. Thomas Sieverts, Cities Without Cities: An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt, 2004
  • Part 3: Conceptual frames
  • Inquiry and change: The troubled attempt to understand and shape society, 1990: The radical contribution of Charles E. Lindblom’s self-guiding society and probing volitions
  • Rediscussing Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia, 1974
  • Property titles to land and issues of distributive justice
  • Blade Runner, 1982. Do Androids dream of electric sheep?- Philip K Dick’s science fiction and Maschinenmenschen in Metropolis
  • Max Weber, Die Stadt (1922), English edition, Max Weber, The City,edited and traslated by Don Martindale and Gertrude Neuwirth, The Free Press, 1958
  • Antonio Gramsci and the prison notebooks
  • Le droit à la ville, 1968: Reading Lefebvre’s the right to the city in planning perspective
  • The trouble with Henri: The production of urban space – from theory to research
  • Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille Plateaux, 1980: "The good use of philosophy"
  • Georges Didi-Huberman, La survivance des lucioles (2009). The thickness of time: going beyond the surface of the present to understand contemporary territories