Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Humanising the Paradigm Shift, 1970-2000
Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge Advances in Urban History
ISBN: 978-1-032-95287-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This edited collection of biographical and autobiographical essays chronicles the transformative journeys of Australian planners who, confronting unprecedented urban challenges in the late twentieth century, pioneered new concepts, methodologies, and approaches that fundamentally reshaped the trajectory of urban planning for the twenty-first century.
The essays illuminate the profound social, economic, and technological upheavals of this era, as the established planning paradigm fractured into multiple specialized approaches—environmental planning, social planning, advocacy planning, collaborative planning, and others. These emerging frameworks, directly linked to rapid urbanization processes, reverberated through urban planning practice and governance structures. The result was a radical reimagining of the planning model itself, driven by critical reassessments of conventional practice, methodological innovations, grassroots demands for meaningful community participation, and heightened attention to previously marginalized concerns: the needs of women and children, Indigenous culture and rights, heritage conservation, environmental sustainability, and social equity.
Reinventing Urban Planning in Australia will appeal to readers interested in the history of urban and social transformation, the evolution of planning theory and policy, Australian urbanism, planning history, and professional biography. It bridges key disciplines including history, geography, urban planning, and environmental studies, offering valuable insights for scholars, practitioners, and students alike.
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Chapter 1
Shifting agendas in Australian planning 1970-2000: A transformation in theory and practice
Nicola Pullan and Robert Freestone
Chapter 2
Rival views about Australian housing: Reflections on the reinvention in the 1970s
Lionel Orchard
Chapter 3
From town planning to urban problem solving: George Clarke and the Urban Systems Corporation
Robert Freestone
Chapter 4
The progressive technocrat: David Carr in Western Australia, 1965-1999
Neil Foley
Chapter 5
Including the environment in urban planning: Professional and political responses to community demands
Barbara Norman
Chapter 6
Wendy Bell and the rise of social planning in Australia
Christine Garnaut
Chapter 7
Women and planning in Australia 1960-2000: Presence, critique and change
Louise Johnson
Chapter 8
Planning’s late awakening to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights and interests
Ed Wensing
Chapter 9
Community groups as a new planning force: The case of Hobart 1970-2000
Stefan Petrow
Chapter 10
Contestation: The radical urban agenda of Ruth and Maurie Crow
David Nichols, Kathryn Davidson, Kaling Cheung
Chapter 11
Individual agency and structural forces in the development of Australian planning education: The case of Queensland
Paul Burton
Chapter 12
Communicating a new agenda: Remembering Claire Wagner
Nicola Pullan and Robert Freestone
