Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action - Softcover

Friedmann, John

 
9780691022680: Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691022682 ISBN 13: 9780691022680
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1987

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John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice. Three of these--social reform, policy analysis, and social learning--are primarily concerned with public management. The fourth, social mobilization, draws on utopianism, anarchism, historical materialism, and other radical thought and looks to the structural transformation of society "from below." After developing a basic vocabulary in Part One, the author proceeds in Part Two to a critical history of each of the four planning traditions. The story begins with the prophetic visions of Saint-Simon and assesses the contributions of such diverse thinkers as Comte, Marx, Dewey, Mannheim, Tugwell, Mumford, Simon, and Habermas. It is carried forward in Part Three by Friedmann's own nontechnocratic, dialectical approach to planning as a method for recovering political community.

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John Friedmann

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"This book is probably the best work on planning theory of the last twenty years. There is no doubt that it will be a major reference for the years to come. . . . It is, in fact, a book on political philosophy and could be extremely useful for all readers interested in the epistemological foundation of social sciences and of public policy."--Manuel Castells, University of California, Berkeley

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691022682
ISBN 13 
9780691022680
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
514
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