Böcker av Patsy Healey

Concern for more open, participative, devolved and integrated government has led many, including the UK Labour government, to re-examine the importance of place, space and territory.

A major new introduction to planning by one of the leading figures in the field. This text goes beyond description of planning's central ideas and practices to stress the importance of its potential to improve the quality of life in the 21st century.

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.

Develops important relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to those with an interest in cities and urban areas. Useful for students, social scientists and policy makers, this book offers concepts and detailed cases of interest to those involved in policy development and management.

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.

Presents a multidimensional collection of critical narratives of conceptual challenges for spatial planning. This title explores different ways of conceptualizing spatial planning and the challenges it faces. It addresses critical questions and debates over the issues for spatial planning and its future.

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.

Reviews of 1st edition:...a major, carefully argued contribution, which should raise the discourse among planning theorists to a new level - a level reserved for a book that succeeds in the ambitious task of weaving together, into one fabric, theories of planning and theories in planning'.

This book, originally published in 1988, provides an account of an analysis of British planning in practice, as observed through empirical research including a range of case studies.