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Making Strategies in Spatial Planning

Knowledge and Values

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Maria Cerreta

    1. Dipto. Conservazione dei Beni, Architettonici e Ambientali, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

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  2. Grazia Concilio

    1. Fac. Architettura, Dipto. Architettura e Pianificazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  3. Valeria Monno

    1. , Department of Architecture and Town Plan, Polytechnic of Bari, Bari, Italy

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  • Discussion of specific issues in urban planning which require new practices and approaches
  • The interdisciplinary material is supported by practical experiences
  • Useful references and practical examples of integration between strategic planning and evaluation
  • The book aims to improve decision-making process in different urban context

Part of the book series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives (URBANLAND, volume 9)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  4. Cognition Dynamics and Knowledge Management in Strategy-Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Futures Studies and Strategic Planning

      • Abdul Khakee
      Pages 209-219

    3. Managing Argumentative Discourses in Multi-Actor Environments

      • Nikos Karacapilidis
      Pages 221-234

    4. Frames, Multi-Agents and Good Behaviours in Planning Rationales

      • Dino Borri
      Pages 235-256

    5. Knowledge Management and Strategic Self-Sustainability: A Human Systems Perspective

      • Milan Zeleny
      Pages 257-280

    6. Bricolaging Knowledge and Practices in Spatial Strategy-Making

      • Grazia Concilio
      Pages 281-301
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This provocative collection of essays challenges traditional ideas of strategic s- tial planning and opens up new avenues of analysis and research. The diversity of contributions here suggests that we need to rethink spatial planning in several f- reaching ways. Let me suggest several avenues of such rethinking that can have both theoretical and practical consequences. First, we need to overcome simplistic bifurcations or dichotomies of assessing outcomes and processes separately from one another. To lapse into the nostalgia of imagining that outcome analysis can exhaust strategic planners’ work might appeal to academics content to study ‘what should be’, but it will doom itself to further irrelevance, ignorance of politics, and rationalistic, technocratic fantasies. But to lapse into an optimism that ‘good process’ is all that strategic planning requires, similarly, rests upon a ction that no credible planning analyst believes: that enough talk will miraculously transcend con ict and produce agreement. Neither sing- minded approach can work, for both avoid dealing with con ict and power, and both too easily avoid dealing with the messiness and the practicalities of negotiating out con icting interests and values – and doing so in ethically and politically critical ways, far from resting content with mere ‘compromise’. Second, we must rethink the sanctity of expertise. By considering analyses of planning outcomes as inseparable from planning processes, these accounts help us to see expertise and substantive analysis as being ‘on tap’, ready to put into use, rather than being particularly and technocratically ‘on top’.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipto. Conservazione dei Beni, Architettonici e Ambientali, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

    Maria Cerreta

  • Fac. Architettura, Dipto. Architettura e Pianificazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Grazia Concilio

  • , Department of Architecture and Town Plan, Polytechnic of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Valeria Monno

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