| #3134475 in Books | 2002-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x.80 x5.40l,.90 | File type: PDF | 446 pages||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent resource for communicative planning|By A Customer|Healey's challenge is to create understandings of the social construction of meaning and the social embeddedness of ways of acting and thinking to be tied with understandings of the wider forces affecting urban regions and governance. Collaborative Planning, while still purporting to address the failings of Modern||Praise for the first edition: |..."a major, carefully argued contribution, which should raise the discourse among planning theorists to a new level--a level reserved for a book that succeeds in the ambitious task of weaving together, into one fabric, theories
In this important book Patsy Healey draws on a wide range of new thinking in social, political and spatial theory to provide a framework for planning which is rooted in the institutional realities of our increasingly fragmented societies but designed to foster communication and collaborative action.The second edition includes a major new chapter assessing recent developments in theory and practice.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies | Patsy Healey. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
