| Title: |
The planning contribution in a disoriented continent. |
| Authors: |
Healey, Patsy1 (AUTHOR) patsy.healey@newcastle.ac.uk |
| Source: |
European Planning Studies. Nov2023, Vol. 31 Issue 11, p2297-2305. 9p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*FUTURES; *ECONOMIC expansion; WELL-being; POLITICAL change; POLICY sciences; SUSTAINABILITY |
| Abstract: |
This piece provides a reflection on the changing political context for planning ideas and practices over the past thirty years. This period has seen the rise and now serious questioning of a neo-liberal pre-occupation with economic growth which gave little space for shaping futures through a focus on place qualities and co-ordinating the spatial dimensions of action, the core of the spatial planning project. Current concerns with promoting inclusive social well-being, reducing adverse impacts on global climate and the environment, and reviving democratic practices create new opportunities for planning understood as strategic guidance for shaping collective futures. Such a project involves not just expertise as developed in the planning field, but needs to draw on many other knowledge fields. And since many futures may evolve from present instabilities and uncertainties, it needs to adopt an active voice in promoting collective attention to spatial co-ordination and place qualities in ways which advance the values of environmental sustainability, inclusive social well-being and richly democratic modes of policy-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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