Routledge handbook of planning theory./ Edited by Michael Gunder, Ali Madanipour and Vanessa Watson

Planning Theory: An Introduction Michael Gunder, Ali Madanipour, Vanessa Watson Part I: Contemporary Planning Practices Spatial Planning: The Promised Land or Rolled-Out Neoliberalism? Simin Davoudi Strategic Planning: Ontological and Epistemological ChallengesLouis AlbrechtsGrowth Management Theory: From the Garden City to Smart Growth Jill L. Grant Planning in the Anthropocene William E. Rees Part II: How Meaning/Values are Constructed in Planning The Public Interest Stefano Moroni Rethinking Scholarship on Planning Ethics Tanja Winkler Communicative Planning Tore Sager Neoliberal Planning Guy Baeten Neo Pragmatist Planning Theory Charles Hoch Urban Planning and Social Justice Susan S. Fainstein The Grassroots of Planning: Poor People's Movements, Political Society, and the Question of Rights Ananya RoyThe Dilemmas of Diversity: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Planning Theory Suzanne Speak and Ashok Kumar Postcolonial Consequences and New Meanings Libby Porter Postpolitics and Planning Jonathan Metzger' Cultural Work' And the Remaking of Planning's 'Apparatus of Truth'Andy Inch Countering 'The Dark Side' of Planning: Power, Governmentality, Counter-Conduct Margo Huxley Co- Evolutionary Planning Theory: Evolutionary Governance Theory and Its Relatives Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld Part III: Networks, Flows, Relationships and Institutions Flexibly Networked, Yet Institutionally Grounded: The Governance of Planning Raine Mantysalo and Pia Backlund New Institutionalism and Planning Theory Andre Sorensen Conflict and Agonism John Ploger Insurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s) Faranak Miraftab State Hegemonic Planning and the Marginalization and Oppression of People Yosef Jabareen Actor-Network Theory Yvonne Rydin Spatial Planning and the Complexity of Turbulent, Open Environments: About Purposeful Interventions in a World of Non-Linear Change Gert de Roo Assemblage Thinking in Planning Theory Joris Van Wezemael Lines of Becoming Jean Hillier

Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge.