ABSTRACT

Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baudrillard and Lyotard have challenged existing ideas about power and rationality in society. This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective and explores alternative conceptions based on a combination of postmodern thinking and other fields of social theory. In doing so, it exposes some of the limits of postmodern social theory while providing an alternative conception of planning in the twenty-first century.
This title will appeal to anyone interested in how we think and act in relation to cities, urban planning and governance.

chapter 2|4 pages

What is the postmodern?: social theory

chapter |12 pages

Lyotard

chapter |8 pages

Baudrillard

chapter |2 pages

Laclau and Mouffe

chapter |2 pages

Prescriptions and Alternatives

chapter 3|36 pages

What is the postmodern?: new times

chapter 4|21 pages

IS PLANNING A MODERN PROJECT? Introduction

chapter 1|32 pages

Collaborative Planning

chapter 09|2 pages

Conclusions

chapter |6 pages

Difference or Consensus

chapter |11 pages

Methodology for Action

chapter |5 pages

Can we Escape from Relativism?

chapter 9|6 pages

CONCLUSIONS