ABSTRACT
Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for more Equitable and Sustainable Cities critically explores planning’s instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes in neoliberal planning landscapes. Because each instrument is unique and may be tailored to its own jurisdictional needs, Instruments of Planning is a compendium of case studies from urban regions in Australia, Canada, the United States and Europe, providing readers with a collection that critically challenges the role and potential of planning instruments and instrumentality across a range of contexts.
Instruments of Planning captures the political, institutional, and economic challenges that confront planning. It examines planning instruments designed to assist with strategic planning and implementation, and considers the role that technology plays in unpacking and understanding complexity in planning.
Written by Rebecca Leshinsky and Crystal Legacy of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, this book fills the gap in planning theory about the instrumentality of planning in the neoliberal urban context. It is essential reading for students, urban researchers, policy analysts and planning practitioners.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
Planning Challenges in a Context of Discontinuous Growth
chapter 2|12 pages
Towards Equitable Intensification
part II|58 pages
Designing Strategies for Change
chapter 5|15 pages
Community Deliberation as a Procedural Planning Tool
chapter 7|13 pages
Social Impact Assessment
part III|70 pages
Instruments to Implement Change
chapter 9|17 pages
Would You Like a Code With That?
chapter 12|17 pages
Regenerating Cities
part IV|62 pages
Technology in Planning