THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO PLANNING THEORY
The Ashgate Research Companions are designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companions editors bring together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory
Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning
Edited by
JEAN HILLIER
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
PATSY HEALEY
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
First published 2010 by Ashgate
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The Ashgate research companion to planning theory : conceptual challenges for spatial planning.
1. City planning. 2. Regional planning.
I. Research companion to planning theory II. Hillier, Jean. III. Healey, Patsy.
307.12-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Ashgate research companion to planning theory : conceptual challenges for spatial planning / [edited] by Jean Hillier and Patsy Healey.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7254-8 (hardback)
1. City planning. 2. Regional planning. I. Hillier, Jean. II. Healey, Patsy.
HT166.A823 2010
307.1216--dc22
2009045791
ISBN 9780754672548 (hbk)
Contents
Jean Hillier
Patsy Healey
Enrico Gualini
Ananya Roy
Richard Howitt and Gaim James Lunkapis
Margo Huxley
Wytske Versteeg and Maarten Hajer
Tore Sager
Louis Albrechts
Jean Hillier
Manuel DeLanda
Joris E. Van Wezemael
J.K. Gibson-Graham and Jenny Cameron
Erik Swyngedouw
John Plger
David Pinder
Jean Hillier
Niraj Verma
Luca Bertolini
Nikos Karadimitriou
Jean Hillier
We would like to acknowledge the enormous contribution to this project of Val Rose, our Commissioning Editor from Ashgate. It was Vals original idea for a Companion collection to the Critical Essays in Planning Theory (Ashgate, 2008) and her invitation to us which has evolved into this volume. Val has shown enormous faith in, and patience with, us and our authors as we have grappled with Conceptual Challenges for Planning Theory. Thank you, Val.
The editors also thank Professor Phil Powrie, Research Dean of Newcastle Universitys Faculty of Humanities and Social Science (HASS) who kindly funded a mini-conference in Newcastle in January 2008 from the NIASSH budget allocation for Research Groups FRSG (2,494.15). The funding permitted drafts of several of the papers to be presented to an audience of peer academics and Newcastle University HASS Early Career Researchers.
We also wish to thank everyone who participated in lively debate at the miniconference and who gave feedback on the papers. We especially thank those who took the time to review written papers and make valuable comments. In particular, our thanks to Carolyn A. Fahey, John Forester, Andrew Law, Diana MacCallum, Abid Mehmood, John Sturzaker, Joris Van Wezemael.
Thanks to Theo van Looij for his patience with translating everyones different chapter formats into something resembling the required Ashgate house style.
The chapter by Tore Sager is a modified version of his paper, Sager, T. (2009) Planners role: torn between dialogical ideals and neo-liberal realities European Planning Studies 17: 6584. Thanks to Taylor and Francis for copyright permission.
The chapter by Manuel DeLanda () by kind permission of Continuum International Publishing Group.
The chapter by J.K. Gibson-Graham and Jenny Cameron ( by kind permission of the Social Alternatives Collective, Queensland, Australia.
Julie Graham sadly passed away on 4th April 2010. We acknowledge the enormous contribution which Julie has made and which her work will continue to make to the disciplines of planning and geography in particular. We are honoured to be able to publish a co-authored chapter by Julie in this volume.
Louis Albrechts is Emeritus Professor of Planning at the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning of the University of Leuven. He was responsible for the Structure Plan Flanders (19921997) and scientific coordinator for the Transport Plan for Flanders (19992000). His recent research interests are in strategic spatial planning with regard to its implementation and its relation to political decisionmaking and power; creativity and diversity as a process; and sustainability.
Luca Bertolini is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. His research and teaching focus on the integration of transport and land use planning, on methods for supporting the option-generation phase of the planning process, on concepts for coping with uncertainty in planning, and on ways of enhancing theory-practice interaction. Main publication topics include the redevelopment of station areas, planning for sustainable accessibility in urban regions, conceptualizing urbanism in the network society, and the application of evolutionary theories to planning. He is actively involved in a variety of international and national research and policy networks. He co-chairs the Transport Planning and Policy thematic group of AESOP (the Association of European Schools of Planning), and is member of the editorial team of the journal Planning Theory and Practice. He leads the national research programs DESSUS (designing sustainable accessibility), KEI (development of station areas in a corridor context: economic significance and institutional incentives) and OBBRI (design and assessment of regional spatial and infrastructure plans).
Jenny Cameron is Associate Professor in the Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Along with J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny is a founding member of the Community Economies Collective (). She has conducted participatory action research working with marginalized groups to develop community economic projects. She has also collaborated with the Queensland Department of Local Government and Planning to evaluate, through action research, public participation in regional planning. Her most recent work has been with grassroots community enterprises, documenting the issues faced by these enterprises. She has published articles in journals that include
