By John Friedmann
For almost fifty years John Friedmann's writings haven't simply led the educational examine of the self-discipline, yet have given form and course to the making plans occupation itself. protecting transactive making plans, radical making plans, the idea that of the nice urban, civil society, rethinking poverty and the range of making plans cultures, this choice of Friedmann's most vital and influential essays tells a coherent and compelling tale approximately how the evolution of puzzling over making plans over numerous many years has helped to form its perform. With every one essay given a brand new advent to set up its context and significance, this can be an excellent textual content for the learn of making plans thought and historical past.
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Douglass and J. Friedmann (eds) Cities for Citizens, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 19–38. ——(2002) The Prospect of Cities, Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, ch. 5. 14 Insurgencies: Essays in planning theory Friedmann, J. and Rangan, H. (eds) (1993) In Defense of Livelihood: comparative studies on environmental action, West Hartford, CN: Kumarian Press, for the United Nations Research Centre for Social Development (UNRISD). Friedmann, J. and Wolff, G. (1982) ‘World city formation: an agenda for research and action’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 6(3): 309–44.
Its purpose is to address an urgent question that I identify as a problem of communication. There appears to be a widening gulf of meaning and understanding between those who advise and those who act in the world, even though the difference between them is not always as clear as theory would have it. The central argument here is that this gulf can be narrowed and bridged through communicative practices, which I define here as dialogue. Planning can be understood as the linkage between knowledge and action in particular settings or contexts.
We can accept him as a person different from ourselves without being threatening or feeling threatened in turn. We can try to hold our intellectual, moral, affective, and empathetic states of being in mutual tension. We can accept conflict as an inevitable part of dialogue and not its termination. We can look for the patterns of shared interests. And we can concentrate the life of dialogue on the here and now. An attitude favorable to dialogue tends to call forth on the part of the other a desire to engage in it.