| CODE | SPI5201 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Theories of Planning | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Spatial Planning and Infrastructure | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | In this study-unit, the students will be introduced to ideas and debates concerning spatial planning processes. Such processes would involve the official and informal participation of different actors from different backgrounds who represent or promote a diversity of interests, expectations, and/or aspirations in the setting of rules or in the making of decisions concerning spatial development. At times (some would argue, most of the times), the positions taken by the said participants would be contradictory and in conflicting. The students will be expected to carry out critical reviews of the above-mentioned ideas and debates, with reference to the political, economic, social, and cultural contexts with which they would have emerged, developed, and interacted. The main focus of these reviews would be the roles that professional planners play in such processes, either as public sector officials, private-sector consultants, or advocates of specific positions. The students will also be required to evaluate ‘real-world’ experiences through case studies that will be presented for discussion in seminar presentations. Study-unit Aims This study-unit is designed to expose the students to the types of issues and problems, and the complexities involved in the rule- and decision-making processes that professional planners are expected or commissioned to take part in. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. be familiar with the ideas and debates [between conflicting ideas] that characterise the practice of spatial planning; 2. be capable of recognizing the different actors participating, officially informally, in rule- and decision-making processes, together with the interests, expectations, or aspirations that such actors represent and/or promote; and 3. have the ability to reflect critically on the processes that they may observe from a distance or participate directly in, and on the roles played and positions taken by the participants in the activities in question with reference to the above-mentioned interests, expectations, or aspirations. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. form part of multi-disciplinary teams, initially as a junior member or eventually as a consultant, team leader, or coordinator, commissioned or assigned to take part in rule- and decision-making processes in spatial planning and related policy fields (such as economic, social, transport, and environmental policy); and 2. to practice, initially as an assistant to, and eventually as a professional planner, within public or private sector organizations or as a self-employed consultant to provide expert advice to rule- and decision-makers, private individuals or organizations advocacy groups and so on. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Allmendinger, P. (2009). Planning Theory (Second ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Booth, P. (2012). Planning and the Common Law Tradition. Abingdon: Routledge. Burchell, R. W., & Sternleib, G. (Eds.). (2012). Planning Theory: A Search for Future Directions. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Clifford, B., & Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2013). The Collaborating Planner?: Practitioners in the Neoliberal Age. Bristol: Policy Press. de Roo, G., Hillier, J., & van Wezemael, J. (2012). Complexity and Planning. Farnham: Ashgate. Fainstein, S. F., & Campbell, S. (Eds.). (2011). Readings in Planning Theory (Third ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Friedmann, J. (2011). Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory. Abingdon: Routledge. Hartmann, T., & Needham, B. (Eds.). (2011). Planning By Law and Property Rights Reconsidered. Farnham : Ashgate. Haughton, G., & Allmendinger, P. (Eds.). (2012). Spatial Planning and the New Localism. Abingdon: Routledge. Healey, P. (2010). Making Better Places: The Planning Project in the Twenty-First Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Hillier, J., & Healey, P. (Eds.). (2008). Critical Essays in Planning Theory Volumes 1, 2 and 3. Farnham: Ashgate. Hillier, J., & Healey, P. (Eds.). (2010). The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory. Farnham: Ashgate. Innes, J., & Booher, D. E. (2010). Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy. Abingdon: Routledge. Needham, B. (2006). Planning, Law and Economics: The Rules We Make for Using Land. Abingdon: Routledge. Oosterlynck, S., van den Broeck, J., Albrechts , L., & Moulaert , F. (Eds.). (2011). Strategic Spatial Projects: Catalysts for Change. Abingdon: Routledge. Sager, T. Ø. (2012). Reviving Critical Planning Theory: Dealing with Pressure, Neo-liberalism, and Responsibility in Communicative Planning. Abingdon: Routledge. Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2011). Urban Reflections: Narratives of Place, Planning and Change. Bristol: Policy Press. Weber, R., & Crane, R. (Eds.). (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Seminar & Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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