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Outside the Whale: Progressive Planning and the Dilemmas of Radical Reform
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Progressive planners, those who are involved in radical reform, confront dilemmas in their work that do not apply to traditional social reformers as mentioned in this paper, which can affect the success of their initiatives.Abstract:
Progressive planners—those who are involved in radical reform—confront dilemmas in their work that do not apply to traditional social reformers. Because they seek to transform society into something other than what it is, progressive planners must evolve new responses to everyday problems. At the same time, they must change commonly held perceptions of how society defines those problems. Finally, they cannot avoid working with traditional political and economic organizations. The ability of progressive planners to perceive and confront those dilemmas can affect the success of their initiatives.read more
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Planning in the Face of Power.
Deborah M. Kolb,John Forester +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role and ethics of planners acting as sources of misinformation are considered, and a practical and politically sensitive form of progressive planning practice is defined. But the authors do not discuss the role of planners in this process.
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A Ladder of Empowerment
TL;DR: This paper developed a ladder of empowerment based on existing empowerment literature, so that planners and others may gain a clearer understanding of empowerment and its varied potential, and developed a typology of empowerment.
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Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of US Planning
TL;DR: In the last half of the 20th century in the United States of America, the modernist planning project that emerged in the first half is being challenged by the political and economic manifestations of postmodernity and its corresponding cultural practices, despite a serious erosion of its rationalist roots, critical distance, reformist intentions, commitment to master narratives, and focus on the city as object of theory and practice as mentioned in this paper.
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Human Nature and Sustainable Development: A Strategic Challenge for Planners:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed the incremental integration of the two worldviews through an overall strategy of action and the use of a decision model that incorporates project and context information to identify appropriate method and role.
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Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue
TL;DR: In this paper, the reciprocity of developing a dialogue between urban planning and degrowth by arguing for two interactive processes (spatialising degrowth and degrowing planning) is discussed.
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TL;DR: The search for scientific bases for confronting problems of social policy is bound to fail, becuase of the nature of these problems as discussed by the authors, whereas science has developed to deal with tame problems.
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Power: A Radical View
TL;DR: The One-Dimensional view, the Two-dimensional view, and the three-dimensional views of power and interest were compared in this article, where the Underlying Concept of Power - Power and Interest - Three Views Compared
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From Mobilization to Revolution.
J. Craig Jenkins,Charles Tilly +1 more
TL;DR: The recent fallecimiento del sociólogo e historiador Charles Tilly (Lombard, Illinois, 1929-Bronx, Nueva York, 2008) puede servir de pretexto for rememorar una trayectoria investigadora sin duda excepcional, plasmada a lo largo de medio siglo en más de 600 artículos and 51 libros and monografías, that le convirtieron en el más influyente especialista
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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
TL;DR: The first selection published from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s as discussed by the authors, was the first publication of the Notebooks in the UK.
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From mobilization to revolution
TL;DR: In the offensive case, a group pools resources in response to opportunities to realize its interests as discussed by the authors, which is the most top-down form of mobilization, whereas in the preventive case, the group pool resources in anticipation of future opportunities and threats.