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Critical Planning and DesignJohn Friedmann, the Good Society (1979): Panning Pathways for a Just Society

Critical Planning and Design: John Friedmann, the Good Society (1979): Panning Pathways for a... [John Friedmann’s concept of The Good Society, which he developed in the 1970s and published as a book in 1979, shows his dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice. While his other writings, such as the World City Hypothesis; Empowerment: The politics of alternative development; or Planning in the public domain: From knowledge to action, have received countless citations, his book from 1979 is marking its place in the academic world only now. It is a visionary as well as a poetic oeuvre in an unusual writing-style with self-contained paragraphs. It presents a dialectical inquisition of possibilities and challenges of a just society, where hope is at its center. At a time where we see three crises overlapping—climate, health, and racism—this book might demonstrate a path of conquering injustice through dialogue, where every participant is the questioner as well as the responder, where social values, political strategies, and collective action come together with a theory of reality and form the core elements of radical practice.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Critical Planning and DesignJohn Friedmann, the Good Society (1979): Panning Pathways for a Just Society

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Editors: Perrone, Camilla
Lehrer, Ute
Critical Planning and Design — Jul 24, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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978-3-030-93106-3
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89 –96
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10.1007/978-3-030-93107-0_7
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[John Friedmann’s concept of The Good Society, which he developed in the 1970s and published as a book in 1979, shows his dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice. While his other writings, such as the World City Hypothesis; Empowerment: The politics of alternative development; or Planning in the public domain: From knowledge to action, have received countless citations, his book from 1979 is marking its place in the academic world only now. It is a visionary as well as a poetic oeuvre in an unusual writing-style with self-contained paragraphs. It presents a dialectical inquisition of possibilities and challenges of a just society, where hope is at its center. At a time where we see three crises overlapping—climate, health, and racism—this book might demonstrate a path of conquering injustice through dialogue, where every participant is the questioner as well as the responder, where social values, political strategies, and collective action come together with a theory of reality and form the core elements of radical practice.]

Published: Jul 24, 2022

Keywords: Good society; John Friedmann; Radical planning; Dialogue; Just society; Social learning; Democracy; Possibility/challenge/hope

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