Böcker av Jean Hillier

This book focuses on the potential and possibilities for socially innovative responses to the climate emergency at the local scale. The authors focus on the creative and collaborative ways local- scale climate action reflects the extra-ordinary measures taken by ordinary people.

Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. These issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning. This book provides a range of understandings and characteristics of complexity and complex systems as they are relevant to planning.

Develops a theory suitable for students and researchers of spatial planning and governance which is grounded primarily in the work of Gilles Deleuze. This book contains theory which recognizes the complex interrelation between place qualities and the multiple space-time relational dynamics of spatial governance.

This book examines issues of decision-making, communication and power in the planning process. The author explores the politics and power-plays which planning practitioners face and engage in, using real examples from planning practice.