Readings in Planning Theory

SUSAN S. FAINSTEIN is Senior Research Fellow and former professor in the Urban Planning Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her books include The Just City (2010), The City Builders (2nd Ed, 2001), and Restructuring the City (1986). Fainstein is also the recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) for lifetime career achievement. JAMES DEFILIPPIS is Associate Professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. His work focuses on the politics and economics of cities and communities, and he is particularly interested in social change, power, and justice in cities. His books include the award-winning Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital (2004).

• Acknowledgments viiiIntroduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory 1Susan S. Fainstein and James DeFilippisPart I The Development of Planning Theory 19Introduction 191. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier 23Robert Fishman2. Co‐evolutions of Planning and Design: Risks and Benefits of Design Perspectives in Planning Systems 51Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld, and Harro de Jong3. Authoritarian High Modernism 75James C. Scott4. The Death and Life of Great American Cities 94Jane Jacobs5. Planning the Capitalist City 110Richard E. Foglesong6. The Three Historic Currents of City Planning 117Peter MarcusePart II What Are Planners Trying to Do? The Justifications and Critiques of Planning 133Introduction 1337. The Planning Project 139Patsy Healey8. Urban Planning in an Uncertain World 156Ash Amin9. Arguments For and Against Planning 169Richard E. Klosterman10. Is There Space for Better Planning in a Neoliberal World? Implications for Planning Practice and Theory 187Heather Campbell, Malcolm Tait, and Craig Watkins11. Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development 214Scott Campbell12. Disasters, Vulnerability and Resilience of Cities 241Brendan Gleeson13. Spatial Justice and Planning 258Susan S. FainsteinPart III Implications of Practice for Theory 273Introduction 27314. The Neglected Places of Practice 277Robert Beauregard15. Home, Sweet Home: American Residential Zoning in Comparative Perspective 293Sonia Hirt16. Understanding Community Development in a “Theory of Action” Framework: Norms, Markets, Justice 324Laura Wolf‐Powers17. Participatory Governance: From Theory to Practice 348Frank Fischer18. Cultivating Surprise and the Art of the Possible: The Drama of Mediating Differences 363John ForesterPart IV Wicked Problems in Planning: Identity, Difference, Ethics, and Conflict 383Introduction 38319. Inclusion and Democracy 389Iris Marion Young20. Towards a Cosmopolitan Urbanism: From Theory to Practice 407Leonie Sandercock21. Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning 427Paul Davidoff22. The Minority‐Race Planner in the Quest for a Just City 443June Manning Thomas23. The Past, Present, and Future of Professional Ethics in Planning 464Martin Wachs24. Insurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South 480Faranak MiraftabPart V Planning in a Globalized World 499Introduction 49925. Place and Place‐Making in Cities: A Global Perspective 503John Friedmann26. Urban Informality: The Production of Space and Practice of Planning 524Ananya Roy27. Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe’s Central Urban Issues 540Vanessa Watson28. Global Cities of the South: Emerging Perspectives on Growth and Inequality 561Gavin ShatkinIndex 587