Beschreibung
The purpose of the book is to elaborate a planning theory which departs from the plethora of theories which reflect the conditions of developed countries of the North-West. The empirical material of this effort is derived from a country, Greece, which sits on the edge between North-West and South-East, at the corner of Europe. No doubt, there is extensive international literature on planning theory in general from a bewildering variety of viewpoints. The interested professional or student of urban and regional planning is certainly aware of the dizzying flood of books, articles and research reports on planning theory and of their never-ending borrowing of obscure concepts from more respectable scientific disciplines, from mathematics to philosophy and from physics to economics, human geography and sociology. He or she probably observed that there is a growing interest in theoretical approaches from the viewpoint of the so-called Global South. The author of the present book has formany decades faced the impasse of attempting to transplant theories founded on the experience of the North-West to countries with a totally different historical, political, social and geographical background. He learned that the reality that planners face is unpredictable, patchy, and responsive to social processes, frequently of a very pedestrian nature. Planning strives to deal with private interests which planners are keen to envelop in a single public interest, which is extremely hard to define. The behaviour of the average citizen, far from being that of the neoclassical model of thehomo economicus, is that of an individual, a kind ofhomo individualis, who interacts with the state and the public administration within a complex web of mutual dependence and negotiation. The state and its administrative apparatus, i.e., the key-determinants and fixers of urban and regional planning policy, bargain with this individual, offer inducements, exemptions, derogations andprivileges, deviate unhesitatingly from their grand policy pronouncements, but still defend the rationality and comprehensiveness of the planning system they have legislated and operationalized. It is by and large a successfulmodus vivendi, but only thanks to a constant practice of compromise. Hence, the termcompromise planning, which the author coined as an alternative to all the existing theoretical forms of planning. This is the sort of planning, and of the accompanying theory, with which he deals in this book. It is the outcome of experience and knowledge accumulated in a long personal journey of academic teaching in England and Greece, research, and professional involvement.
Autorenportrait
Louis C. Wassenhoven is Professor Emeritus (Urban and Regional Planning), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), a Postgraduate Diploma in Planning from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), an MA in Architecture (NTUA) and a Certificate in Town Planning (Ministry of Housing, France). Apart from his career at NTUA, where he was the director of the Laboratory of Regional Planning and Urban Development, he has taught as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the Development Planning Unit, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning (University College London) and as visiting teacher in other universities. He has served as chairman of the Greek National Council of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, as chairman of the Steering Committee of the Joint Activity on Urban Management of OECD, as vice-chairman of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, as member of the board of the company Hellinikon s.a. (Management and Redevelopment of the site of the former Athens international airport), and as member of the council of the Technical University of Crete. He is a past member of the British Royal Town Planning Institute and a member of the Association of Greek Urban and Regional Planners. He is the author of four books in Greek, i.e., on Territorial Governance, Maritime Spatial Planning,Hellenic passion: Development of the former Hellinikon airport of Athens, andPutting order in our country: A history of spatial planning in Greece after World War II(in print). He is also the author of a book in English (The Ancestry of Regional Spatial Planning: A planners look at history) published by Springer, and of a number of articles and papers in Greek or English. He wrote the volume on Greece of the EU Compendium of Spatial Planning Systems and Policies.
Inhalt
Ch.1 Introduction Defining the problem.- PART I: Review of theories.- Ch.2 Planning theories: Typologies and overcrowding.- Ch.3 Mainstream theories: The rational and communicative currents.- Ch.4 Theoretical challenges: The radical current and Southern theory.- Ch.5 The climate current: Environmental concerns in the Anthropocene age.- PART II: Greece as a case study.- Ch.6 Greece: On the edge of North and South A historical perspective.- Ch. 7 The state as a crucial parameter for the interpretation of planning.- Ch. 8 The Greek planning system: A case study at the tip of the Balkan peninsula.- Part III: A theory of compromise planning.- Ch.9 Planners, knowledge transfer, planning culture: Looking for a new theory.- Ch. 10 Compromise planning andhomo individualis.- Ch.11 Conclusions: The parallel worlds of planning - Variants of compromise.- Index.
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