Planning Theory Book

	List of Figures and Tables
	Preface
1	What is Theory	1
	The nature of theory	1
	The theory-practice gap	20
2	The Current Landscape of Planning Theory	26
	Typologies of planning theory	29
	The approach	39
3	Systems and Rational Theories of Planning	41
	Systems theory	42
	Rational process theories of planning	53
4	Marxism and Critical Theory	68
	Political economy and Marxism	69
	The link to planning	72
	Marxism today: recent developments	82
	Marxist planning	84
5	New Right Planning	92
	The Liberal New Right	95
	The Conservative New Right	99
	New Right theory and planning	102
	Simplified Planning Zones: the New Right in practice	107
	A critique of the New Right approach	110
6	Pragmatism	114
	What is pragmatism?	116
	Planning and pragmatism	121
	Discussion of pragmatism and planning	129
7	Planners ad Advocates	133
	The politics of planning	133
	Paul Davidoff and the planner as advocate	138
	Pluralism	144
	Advocacy in action? Planning aid and equity planning	148
8	Postmodern Planning	155
	What is the modern?	157
	The postmodern as epoch and social theory	160
	The postmodern as social theory	162
	Is planning modern or postmodern?	168
	Towards a postmodern planning?	172
	Discussion	177
9	Collaborative Planning	181
	Communicative rationality	184
	The practical application of communicative rationality 165	188
	Planning as a communicative process 168	191
	Analyses of current practice	200
	Planning for Real - communicative planning in practice?	202
10	Conclusions	207
	Tracking back: the influences on planning theory	211
	Conclusions and the future	217
	Bibliography	224
	Index	237