Collaborative Planning in Perspective
Planning Theory
Patsy Healey
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This article presents a personal review by the author of Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies (1997). It explains how the book came to be written and responds to critiques concerning context, process, social theory, power, and institutionalist analysis, arguing for continued attention to th…
Canonical source in our Research Library — supports Civic collaborative planning and Institutional capacity for place decisions. We cite the publisher/DOI directly; recommendation is independent of any commission.
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