The drama of democracy : contention and dispute in community planning /
The drama of democracy seldom plays out as literally as it does in urban planning disputes. Yet these are complex dramas in which villains aren't clearly identified, protagonists are caught with ulterior motives, and fifth business runs rampant. In this book, Jill Grant aptly uses a dramaturgic...
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Tables, Maps, Photographs, and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- PART 1: All the World's a Stage
- Introduction: 'Everyone Loves a Mystery'
- 1 THE PLANNING DRAMA
- Meaning and Explanation
- The Function of Planning
- Studying Planning Practice
- Planning for Democracy
- 2 STAGES, ACTORS, AND SCRIPTS
- The Stage
- Staging Performances
- The Actors
- Actors and Audiences
- The Script
- Examining the Script
- PART 2: Audience, Take Your Seats
- 3 DESPERATELY SEEKING DEVELOPMENT
- Regional Economic Context
- Socio-historic ContextLegislative Context
- Local Action in Regional Context
- 4 PLANNING ISSUES IN PENINSULAR HALIFAX
- Halifax in the Postwar Period
- The 'Participation Era': The 1970s
- The Conservative 1980s
- From Overview to Specifics
- 5 MARKET PLACE PLAZA
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
- 6 MITCHELL PROPERTY
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
- PART 3: The Reviews Are In
- 7 STAGING PLANNING ACTIVITIES
- International and National Context
- The Provincial Context
- The Local Context
- The Influence of Culture
- The Context of Action8 COMMAND PERFORMANCE
- Planners' Perspectives
- Elected Politicians
- Citizen Activists
- Actors in Interaction
- 9 SCRIPTS AND VALUES
- Values, Beliefs, and Meanings
- Complex Value Sets
- Values and Visions
- Language and Meaning
- Communication and Miscommunication
- Part 4: Planning in a Democratic Society
- 10 DEMOCRACY IN MYTH AND PRACTICE
- The Process of Democracy
- The Substance of Democracy
- Promoting Democracy in the 1990s
- Participation in a Democratic Society
- Democratic Spaces
- Manipulation of the MassesWhat Is Democracy?
- 11 PLANNING MYTHS AND REALITY
- Lessons for Planning Theory and Practice
- Planning and Capitalism
- Planning and Participation
- Planning in Halifax
- Towards a Theory of Practice
- Appendix: Glossary of Terms and Short Forms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- M
- P
- Q
- R
- S
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