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Item specifics
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- Publication Name
- University of California Press
- ISBN
- 9780520064133
- Book Title
- Planning in the Face of Power
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- General, Sociology / Urban
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520064135
ISBN-13
9780520064133
eBay Product ID (ePID)
320076
Product Key Features
Book Title
Planning in the Face of Power
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1988
Topic
General, Sociology / Urban
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
88-040241
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
361.6/1
Table Of Content
List of Tables Preface Part One. Recognize Problems, Seize Opportunities 1. The Challenges of Planning Practice 2. What Do Planning Analysts Do? Planning and Policy Analysis as Organizing Part Two. To Be Rational, Be Political 3. Planning in the Face of Power 4. The Politics of Muddling Through Part Three. Anticipate Organizational Power and Conflict 5. Three Views of Planning Organizations 6. Planning in the Face of Conflict: Mediated Negotiation Strategies in Practice Part Four. Focus on What Counts: Planning and Design as Practical Communicative Action 7. Listening: The Social Policy of Everyday Life 8. Designing as Making Sense Together Part Five. Use Planning Theory to Anticipate and Respond to Problems of Practice 9. Understanding Planning Practice 10. Supplement on Planning Education: Teaching Planning Practice Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Why do our best-laid plans often over-reach and under-achieve? Why do our attempts to solve problems in some rational way often run afoul of politics and power? Why do we so often accomplish so little, even as we sense that so much more is possible? By looking closely at the work of city planners, Planning in the Face of Power addresses these questions and provides a new way of thinking about the practical and inevitably political work of improving our neighborhoods, schools, community organizations, and the public institutions that shape our lives. Power and inequality are realities that planners of all kinds must face in the practical world. In Planning in the Face of Power , John Forester argues that effective, public-serving planners can overcome the traditional-but paralyzing-dichotomies of being either professional or political, detached and distantly rational or engaged and change-oriented. Because inequalities of power directly structure planning practice, planners who are blind to relations of power will inevitably fail. Forester shows how, in the face of the conflict-ridden demands of practice, planners can think politically and rationally at the same time, avoid common sources of failure, and work to advance both a vision of the broader public good and the interests of the least powerful members of society. This book provides a systematic reformulation of the politics of professional practice in the arena of city planning, public policy making, and public administration and management. It has immediate implications for the study of administration and management and for students of administration and planning in schools of social work, education, and public health. While focusing concretely on problems of planning practice (e.g. planners' sources of influence, their difficulties of listening critically, their understandings of the politics of organizations), Planning in the Face of Power brings to bear a wide range of theoretical insights and so integrates social and political theory with the demands of actual practice. Accordingly, the book will be important to practitioners who seek to understand the pressures they face at work as well as social theorists who wish to integrate theory and practice more powerfully, but will also appeal to the general reader interested in gaining an understanding of the practice of planning in the face of the realities of social equality and power., Why do our best-laid plans often over-reach and under-achieve? Why do our attempts to solve problems in some rational way often run afoul of politics and power? Why do we so often accomplish so little, even as we sense that so much more is possible? By looking closely at the work of city planners, Planning in the Face of Power addresses these questions and provides a new way of thinking about the practical and inevitably political work of improving our neighborhoods, schools, community organizations, and the public institutions that shape our lives. Power and inequality are realities that planners of all kinds must face in the practical world. In Planning in the Face of Power , John Forester argues that effective, public-serving planners can overcome the traditional--but paralyzing--dichotomies of being either professional or political, detached and distantly rational or engaged and change-oriented. Because inequalities of power directly structure planning practice, planners who are blind to relations of power will inevitably fail. Forester shows how, in the face of the conflict-ridden demands of practice, planners can think politically and rationally at the same time, avoid common sources of failure, and work to advance both a vision of the broader public good and the interests of the least powerful members of society. This book provides a systematic reformulation of the politics of professional practice in the arena of city planning, public policy making, and public administration and management. It has immediate implications for the study of administration and management and for students of administration and planning in schools of social work, education, and public health. While focusing concretely on problems of planning practice (e.g. planners' sources of influence, their difficulties of listening critically, their understandings of the politics of organizations), Planning in the Face of Power brings to bear a wide range of theoretical insights and so integrates social and political theory with the demands of actual practice. Accordingly, the book will be important to practitioners who seek to understand the pressures they face at work as well as social theorists who wish to integrate theory and practice more powerfully, but will also appeal to the general reader interested in gaining an understanding of the practice of planning in the face of the realities of social equality and power.
LC Classification Number
H97.F67 1988
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