eBook - ePub
What Town Planners Do
Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies
- 228 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
What Town Planners Do
Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies
About this book
Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how places are made through stories of four diverse public and private sector working environments.
The book provides a unique insight for educators, students and researchers into the everyday lives of planners and those in associated built environment occupations. This exceptional account of the micro-politics of a knowledge-intensive profession also provides an excellent resource for sociologists of contemporary work. The authors use team ethnography to push the methodological frontiers of planning research and to advance organisational ethnography into new areas.
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Yes, you can access What Town Planners Do by Abigail Schoneboom,Jason Slade,Malcolm Tait,Geoff Vigar in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Architecture & Urban Planning & Landscaping. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Introducing contemporary planning practice
- 2 Southwell: the privatised local authority
- 3 Simpsons: the values-driven global consultancy
- 4 Bakerdale: a ‘traditional’ local authority commercialising under austerity politics
- 5 OIP: the ‘regular’ planning consultancy
- 6 So, just what are planners doing?
- Notes
- References
- Index