Books in the Critical Essays in Planning Theory series

Includes articles and papers which offer an introduction to planning theory. This book reviews the subject's development, its recurrent themes, its contemporary preoccupation as rational scientific management and its relations to other fields.

Covers the critical political economy, the turn to diversity and critical pragmatism. This book offers a reference resource for planning scholars, upper-level undergraduate and post-graduate students.

The third and final volume in this series covers Contemporary Movements in Planning Theory and topics include communicative practices and the negotiation of meaning, networks, institutions and relations, and the complexity 'turn'. The articles selected represent the most influential and controversial recent work in planning theory and are supplemented by detailed introductions by the editors.