The Uses of Planning Theory: A Bibliographic Essay

John Friedmann

»Planning theory is becoming an increasingly global discourse. The eponymous journal Planning Theory was founded by Luigi Mazza of the University of Milano in the 1990s. Several volumes of Anglo-American planning theorists (Forester, Friedmann, Healey, and Sandercock among others) have been translated into Italian and published by Dedalo under the general editorship of Dino Borri of the Technical University of Bari. In the UK, Patsy Healey, with the strong support of the Royal Town Planning Institute, founded the journal Planning Theory and Practice which in 2008 is celebrating its tenth anniversary. In Germany, Klaus Selle at the University of Aachen has been a major contributor to planning theoretical discourse. Individual contributions have come from Israel, Brazil, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, and Greece. And as recent issues of the China City Planning Review (published in English) demonstrate, there is now even a small number of Chinese planners who have joined the discourse. ...«

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