A Future for Planning by Michael Harris - 9781138708808

Taylor & Francis

A Future for PlanningTaking Responsibility for Twenty-First Century Challenges\nAuthor(s): Michael Harris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138708808, 978-1138708808\nSynopsis\nAs well as being spatial, planning is necessarily also about the future and yet time has been relatively neglected in the academic, practice and policy literature on planning. Time, in particular the need for longer-term thinking, is critical to responding effectively to a range of pressing societal challenges from climate change to an ageing population, poor urban health to sustainable economic development. This makes the relative neglect of time not only a matter of theoretical importance but also increasing practical and political significance.\n\nA Future for Planning is an accessible, wide-ranging book that considers how planning practice and policy have been constrained by short-termism, as well as by a familiar lack of spatial thin.