Table of Contents

Preface to the 2nd edition.- PART I: TOWARDS AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNT AND COMMUNICATIVE THEORY OF PLANNING.- Introduction.- Traditions of Planning Thought.- An Institutional Approach to Spatial Change and Environmental Planning.- Spatial Planning Systems and Practices.- PART II: THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF URBAN REGIONS.- Introduction.- Everyday Life and Local Environments.- Local Economies, Land and Property.- Living in the Natural World.- PART III: PROCESSES FOR COLLABORATIVE PLANNING.- Planning and Governance.- Strategies, Processes and Plans.- Systemic Institutional Design for Collaborative Planning.- Beyond Collaborative Planning.- Collaborative Planning: A Contested Practice in Evolution.

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PATSY HEALEY is Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

About the Author

PATSY HEALEY is Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Reviews

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 of planning and theories in planning." - Rachelle Alterman and Tamy Stav, Town Planning Review "...[A] visionary and important work..." - A.McArthur, Planning and Design "A brilliant exposition of the development of theoretical concepts of planning in the second half of the twentieth century." - A. Gile, Perspectives in Rural Policy and Planning