Planning in the Public Domain : : From Knowledge to Action / / John Friedmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Friedmann, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part One / Concepts --; 1. The Terrain of Planning Theory --; Part Two / Traditions --; 2. Two Centuries of Planning Theory: An Overview --; 3. Planning as Social Reform --; 4. Planning as Policy Analysis --; 5. Planning as Social Learning --; 6. Planning as Social Mobilization --; Part Three / Emergents --; 7. Where Do We Stand? --; 8. From Critique to Reconstruction --; 9. The Recovery of Political Community --; 10. The Mediations of Radical Planning --; Epilogue --; Appendix A. Planning as a Form of Scientific Management --; Appendix B. The Professionalization of Policy Analysis --; Appendix C. Marxism and Planning Theory --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691214009; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691214009?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Friedmann.

John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice. Three of these--social reform, policy analysis, and social learning--are primarily concerned with public management. The fourth, social mobilization, draws on utopianism, anarchism, historical materialism, and other radical thought and looks to the structural transformation of society "from below." After developing a basic vocabulary in Part One, the author proceeds in Part Two to a critical history of each of the four planning traditions. The story begins with the prophetic visions of Saint-Simon and assesses the contributions of such diverse thinkers as Comte, Marx, Dewey, Mannheim, Tugwell, Mumford, Simon, and Habermas. It is carried forward in Part Three by Friedmann's own nontechnocratic, dialectical approach to planning as a method for recovering political community.