Planning With Complexity

Download or read book Planning with Complexity written by Judith E. Innes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of collaborative rationality, to help make sense of the new practices. They enquire in detail into how collaborative rationality works, the theories that inform it, and the potential and pitfalls for democracy in the twenty-first century. Representing the authors’ collective experience based upon over thirty years of research and practice, this is insightful reading for students, educators, scholars, and reflective practitioners in the fields of urban planning, public policy, political science and public administration.