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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 67)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents, struggles and consequences of urban and regional planning. It shows that plans and policies often defy the commonly perceived role of advancing equality, justice, development and amenity, by causing social problems, marginalisation and inequalities. The book looks at planning from a critical distance, without a priori belief in its necessity or usefulness. The 12 chapters, written by renowned international scholars, demonstrate the multiplicity of social and political struggles over the contested terrain of spatial policies. The book focuses on four key areas where the impact of planning is explored: the community power, gender relations, ethnic tensions, and social polarisation, while comparing three societies: Australia, Israel and England.
Audience: This volume is mainly intended for faculty and students of academia, but also for urban professionals and policy-makers. The book is relevant to fields such as urban and regional planning, geography, political science, urban studies, urban sociology, urban anthropology, ethnic and gender relations.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Geography, and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Oren Yiftachel
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Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK
Jo Little
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Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
David Hedgcock
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Department of Geography, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Ian Alexander
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Power of Planning
Book Subtitle: Spaces of Control and Transformation
Editors: Oren Yiftachel, Jo Little, David Hedgcock, Ian Alexander
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0359-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0533-6Published: 30 April 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0534-3Published: 30 April 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0359-9Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Geography, general, Economic Policy, Architecture, general, Sociology, general, Methodology of the Social Sciences