Connections - Exploring Contemporary Planning Theory and Practice With Patsy Healey

The professional practice as well as the academic discipline of planning has been fundamentally re-invented all over the world in recent decades. In this astonishing transition, the thinking and scholarship of Patsy Healey appears as a constantly recurring influence and inspiration around the globe. The purpose of this book is to present, discuss and celebrate Healey's seminal contributions to the development of the theory and practice of spatial planning. The volume contains a selection of 13 less readily available, but nevertheless, key texts by Healey, which have been selected to represent the trajectory of Patsy's work across the several decades of her research career. 12 original chapters by a wide range of invited contributors take the ideas in the reprinted papers as points of departure for their own work, tracing out their continuing relevance for contemporary and future directions in planning scholarship. In doing so, these chapters tease out the themes and interests in Healey's work which are still highly relevant to the planning project. The title - Connections - symbolises relationality, possibly the most outstanding element linking Patsy's ideas. The book showcases the wide international influence of Patsy's work and celebrates the whole trajectory of work to show how many of her ideas on for instance the role of theory in planning, processes of change, networking as a mode of governance, how ideas spread, and ways of thinking planning democratically were ahead of their time and are still of importance.

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Connections

About the author

Jean Hillier is Emeritus Professor of Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University, Australia and Jonathan Metzger is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Summary

The title - Connections - symbolises relationality, possibly the most outstanding element linking Patsy’s ideas. The book showcases the wide international influence of Patsy’s work and celebrates the whole trajectory of work to show how many of her ideas on for instance the role of theory in planning, processes of change, networking as a mode of go

Product details

• Authors: Jean Hillier, Jean Metzger Hillier, Hillier Jean, Jonathan Metzger, Metzger Jonathan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367787363
• ISBN: 978-0-367-78736-3
• No. of pages: 482
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Society & culture: general, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, Health & personal development, The environment, Social Work, Ethics & moral philosophy, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social welfare and social services, Regional & area planning, Human Geography, Regional and area planning, City and town planning: architectural aspects