Title:
Dilemmas of planning practice : ethics, legitimacy and the validation of knowledge
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Publication Information:
Aldershot : Averbury Technical, 1991
ISBN:
9781856281737
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Summary
Summary
Provides a structured discussion of issues concerning the nature of planning and issues affected by changes in the content and context of planning. This book considers the ethical problems facing planners and suggests strategies for individuals and the profession in tackling these problems.
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| Expertise, Knowledge and Ethics |
| Debates in planning thought |
| Professionalism, power and planners |
| The Experience of Practice |
| Introduction |
| Planners' skills and planning practice |
| Entering practice |
| Sociology, planning and pragmatism in twenty short years |
| The nature of the job |
| From the public to the private sector |
| Some reflections on planning and politics in Inner London |
| A client-based view of the planning service |
| Reflections |
| Introduction |
| What is really material? Rising above interest group politics |
| Do professional codes legitimate planners' values |
| Directions |
| Roles |
| What kind of planner to be? Tackling ethical issues |
| Strategies of legitimacy |
| Knowledge, skills and their validation: knowing why,as well as what and how |
| Notes |
| Appendices |
| References |
| Index |
