Overview
- Combines seminal text of different intellectual domains in a surprising way
- Rigourous re-readings of the seminal books, animated by elective affinity
- Diffentiated and integrated dialogue by international authors from a global research network
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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About this book
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 in this book as a field of research inspired by critical urban theory and developed along with ideas and theories that prove to be radical, alternative, dialectical to the mainstream history of planning.
In this book, scholars present what they consider as the most important books in the field of planning, public policy and design. They have been asked to write about a book and its author, in their preferred manner. This freedom allowed passionate and original contributions.
Three main threads - the three parts of the book - shape the choices of the authors. The first concerns the reconstruction of some genealogical roots of planning (including Cerdà, YonaFriedman, Alberto Magnaghi, and Ian McHarg). The second thread groups the authors who dialogue with contemporary protagonists of the planning debate (including John Friedmann, Leonie Sandercock, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, Tom Sievert, and Patzy Healey). The third thread includes authors who dig into relevant writings in social and philosophical sciences (including Max Weber, Charles Lindblom, Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Georges Didi-Huberman, Robert Nozick, Pand hilip K Dick).
The book is addressed to researchers of planning and urban studies, who value the critical re-reading of some fundamental books. Including thoughtful and critical arguments on influential thinkers of the past two centuries, the book will enable students, scholars and researchers of planning, design, political science, geographical, environmental, and urban studies to better understand the socio-spatial and ecological transformations under the contemporary transitionwhile relying on a “usable past”. The book is also addressed to a wider audience of readers interested in the problems of the city and space.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Roots
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Planning Pathways
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Conceptual Frames
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. dr. hc. Camilla Perrone has obtained a PhD in Urban, Regional and Environmental Design (2002). She works as an associate professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florence (UniFi) Italy, where she teaches Urban Policy and Spatial Strategic Planning and founded the Research Laboratory of Critical Planning and Design (2015).
Her current fields of interest cover the following areas: critical planning and design; urban political ecology, diversity and interactive design; social, spatial and environmental justice; inter-scalar urbanisation and strategic planning; city and regional planning.
Currently, she is President of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Study Center for Urban Policies (Urban@it). In addition, she serves in multiple roles in Italian, European and international Associations such as the Italian Society of Urban Planners (SIU), AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning), Inura (International Networkof Urban Research and Action).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Planning and Design
Book Subtitle: Roots, Pathways, and Frames
Editors: Camilla Perrone
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93107-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93106-3Published: 24 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93109-4Published: 24 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93107-0Published: 23 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 263
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban History, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Politics