Week 2 lecture
This philosophy posits that the only true knowledge is that which can be experienced through the senses, often associated with quantitative methods.
What is positivism?
Iris Marion Young defined social justice as the elimination of these.
What is domination and oppression?
This country undertook the most ambitious development of new towns according to new planning principles in response to housing shortages in the aftermath of WWII.
McGuirk's research followed a communicative planning process in this Australian city.
This New Yorker battled Robert Moses and wrote a famous book 1961 book that went on the influence a generation of urbanists.
Who is Jane Jacobs?
This theory assumes that a hierarchy of settlements will develop across a flat, limitless plain where rural populations are evenly distributed.
What is central place theorem?
Foucault coined this term to describe the power to produce subjects through calculation, measurement and categorisation of human populations.
What is biopower?
This architect was a leading proponent of modernist design and is credited with the 'tower in the park' concept.
This planning theory positions the planner as a 'critical friend' or 'knowledge mediator' within a communicative process.
What is communicative planning?
This German philosopher proposed an alternative type of rationality based on reasoning through deliberation and argumentation.
Who is Jurgen Habermas?
This thinker argued that rational forms are fundamental to the development of western society and capitalism, including formal rationality and substantive rationality.
Who is Max Weber?
The Builders Labourers' Federation used this tactic to prevent socially and environmentally destructive development in the 1970s.
What are Green Bans?
In the 1970s, urban planning began to transform yet again in response to environmental impacts and this issue.
CPT is based on this form of rationality developed by a German philosopher.
What is communicative rationality?
This political philosopher produced famous works on justice from a distributive perspective.
Who is John Rawls?
This approach to urban design sought to separate pedestrians and traffic by designing 'back to front' houses, with front doors oriented to common open spaces rather than streets.
What is Radburn design?
This practice of the US real estate and banking industries declared neighbourhoods too 'risky' for lending due to the presence of racial minorities.
What is redlining?
This utopian thinker developed the concept of the garden city.
Who is Ebenezer Howard?
McGuirk argues that CPT overlooks these types of relations.
What are power relations?
This Marxist geographer identified social injustice as inherent to the process of urbanisation under capitalism.
Who is David Harvey?
This theory of planning sees the planner as a political neutral expert in the decision-making process, making objective decisions in the public interest.
What is rational comprehensive planning theory?
This legislation, alongside the 1977 Heritage Act, is seen as a legacy of the Builders Labourers' Federation.
What is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act?
This organisation brought together the ideas of Ebenezer Howard, Peter Kropotkin, and Patrick Geddes to push for the development of decentralised communities in the countryside.
What is the Regional Planning Association of America?
For McGuirk, planning theory must embrace these alternatives to consensus.
What are conflict and compromise?
This planning scholar coined the concept of the 'ladder of participation'.
Who is Sherry Arnstein?