Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies - Hardcover

In this important new book Patsy healey draws on a very wide range of developments in social, political and spatial thought to propose a new framework for planning which is rooted in the institutional realities of the emerging world of the twenty-first century. International in scope and comprehensive in its range, it points a way forward for spatial planning activity, from a narrow technical and procedural focus towards a communicative and collaborative model for achieving common purposes in the shared spaces of our fragmented societies.

Patsy Healey is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research in European Urban Environments, Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.