SPT-E1030 - Planning Theory D, Lecture, 13.9.2022-13.12.2022

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  General
  In the course Planning Theory, we will read classical texts in the field of planning theory, write summaries and work in groups to familiarise ourselves with the most topical themes in planning theory. You will also author an essay covering a topic of your choice.

  
  Program, Fall 2022 (subject to minor changes)
  
  

  Tuesdays 14.15-15.45
  

  13.9.-11.10.      Lecture room R2 (Rakentajanaukio 4)
  25.10.               Lecture room U1 (Otakaari 1)
  1.11.                 Lecture room U3 (Otakaari 1)
  8.11.-13.12.      Lecture room U1 (Otakaari 1)
  Exception: 15.11. Online
  

  
  

  13.9. Introduction to planning theory
  

  
  

  
  

  20.9. Justification of planning
  Readings (choose one):
  

  • Terry Moore: Why Allow Planners to do what they do?
  • Richard E. Klosterman: Arguments for and against planning
  • Heather Campbell & Robert Marshall: Utilitarianism's bad breath: a re-valuation of the public interest justification for planning

  Group 1 reads all three articles and introduces them to others.
  Everyone writes a short summary of their chosen article and prepares to discuss it in the session.
  Location: Lecture room R2 (Rakentajanaukio 4)
  

  
  

  27.9. Rational planning, “bounded rationality” and wicked problems
  Readings (choose one):
  

  • Edward C. Banfield: Means and Ends in Planning
  • Charles E. Lindblom: The Science of Muddling Through
  • Horst W. J. Rittel & Melvin M. Webber: Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning

  Group 2 reads all three articles and introduces them to others.
  

  Everyone writes a short summary of their chosen article and prepares to discuss it in the session.
  Location: Lecture room R2 (Rakentajanaukio 4)
  

  
  

  
  

  4.10. Knowledge in planning
  Readings (choose one):
  

  • Yvonne Rydin: Re-examining the role of knowledge in planning theory
  • Kevin Krizek, Ann Forsyth, and Carissa Schively Slotterback: Is there a role for evidence-based practice in urban planning and policy?
  • Simin Davoudi: Planning as practice of knowing
    

  Group 3 reads all three articles and introduces them to others.
  

  Everyone writes a short summary of their chosen article and prepares to discuss it in the session.
  Location: Lecture room R2 (Rakentajanaukio 4)
  

  
  

  
  

  11.10. Advocacy planning and transactive planning
  Readings (choose one):

  • Paul Davidoff: Advocacy and pluralism in planning
  • Allan David Heskin: Crisis and Response: A Historical Perspective on Advocacy Planning
  • John Friedmann: Toward a non-Euclidian mode of planning 
    

  Group 4 reads all three articles and introduces them to others.
  

  Everyone writes a short summary of their chosen article and prepares to discuss it in the session.
  Location: Lecture room R2 (Rakentajanaukio 4)
  

  
  

  
  

  18.10. No group session (exam week), individual working.

  Decide about your essay title and write a short description of the contents

  
  

  
  

  25.10. Communicative planning theory
  Readings (choose one):

  • Patsy Healey: Planning Through Debate
  • John Forester: Critical theory and planning practice
  • Louis Albrechts and William Denayer: Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism (a chapter in a book 'Handbook of Urban Studies', pages 369-384)

  Group 5 reads all three articles and introduces them to others.
  

  Everyone writes a short summary of their chosen article and prepares to discuss it in the session.
  Location: Lecture room U1 (Otakaari 1)
  
  

  
  1.11. Writing clinic 1
  Bring the first version of your essay with you.
  Location: Lecture room U3 (Otakaari 1)
  

  
  

  
  

  8.11. Agonistic approach to planning
  Readings (choose one):
  

  • Jean Hillier: “Agon’izing” over consensus
  • John Pløger: Strife: Urban planning and agonism
  • Sophie Bond: Negotiating a democratic ethos: Moving beyond the agonistic-communicative divide

  Group 6 reads all three articles and introduces them to others.
  

  Everyone writes a short summary of their chosen article and prepares to discuss it in the session.
  Location: Lecture room U1 (Otakaari 1)
  

  
  

  
  

  15.11. Writing clinic 2
  

  Guest lecture on academic writing
  

  Maurice Forget, Language center, Aalto-university
  Location: Online (Zoom-link)
  

  
  

  
  

  22.11. Justice and ethics in planning
  Readings (choose one):
  

  • Susan Fainstein: The just city
  • Justus Uitermark and Walter Nicholls: Planning for social justice: Strategies, dilemmas, tradeoffs
  • Rafael H. M. Pereira, Tim Schwanen & David Banister: Distributive justice and equity in transportation

  Group 7 reads all three articles and introduces them to others.
  Everyone writes a short summary of their chosen article and prepares to discuss it in the session.
  Location: Lecture room U1 (Otakaari 1)
  

  
  

  
  

  29.11. Writing clinic 3
  Bring the second version of your essay with you.
  Location: Lecture room U1 (Otakaari 1)
  

  
  

  
  

  6.12. No group session (Independence Day)
  

  
  

  
  

  13.12. Theory and practice – reflection and course feedback
  Readings (choose one):
  

  • Vanessa Watson: Do we learn from planning practice? The contribution of the practice movement to planning theory
  • Alan March: Practising theory - When theory affects urban planning
  • Ernst Alexander:  Introduction: Does planning theory affect practice, and if so, how? 
    

  Group 8 reads all three articles and introduces them to others.
  Everyone writes a short summary of their chosen article and prepares to discuss it in the session.
  Location: Lecture room U1 (Otakaari 1)
  

  
  

  
  

  Grading
  Grading will be based on your essay (50%) and your performance during the sessions (50%), including your written entries (summaries), group work, and participation in the general discussion. Note that you are required to pass both the essay part and the summaries & group work parts of the course to pass the course.
  

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