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What Town Planners Do

Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies

Abigail Schoneboom (Newcastle University) Jason Slade (University of Sheffield) Malcolm Tait (University of Sheffield) Geoff Vigar (Newcastle University)

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English
Policy Press
01 June 2024
Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how places are made through stories of four diverse public and private sector working environments.

The book provides a unique insight for educators, students and researchers into the everyday lives of planners and those in associated built environment occupations. This exceptional account of the micro-politics of a knowledge-intensive profession also provides an excellent resource for sociologists of contemporary work. The authors use team ethnography to push the methodological frontiers of planning research and to advance organisational ethnography into new areas.
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Imprint:   Policy Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781447365983
ISBN 10:   1447365984
Pages:   228
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1. Introducing Contemporary Planning Practice 2. Southwell: the Privatised Local Authority 3. Simpsons: the Values-Driven Global Consultancy 4. Bakerdale: a ‘Traditional’ Local Authority Commercialising Under Austerity Politics 5. OIP: the ‘regular’ planning consultancy 6. So, Just What Are Planners Doing?

Abigail Schoneboom is a Lecturer in Urban Planning at Newcastle University. Jason Slade is a Lecturer in Planning at the University of Sheffield. Malcolm Tait is Professor of Planning at the University of Sheffield. Geoff Vigar is Professor of Urban Planning at Newcastle University.

Reviews for What Town Planners Do: Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies

“I would recommend this book as a useful and accessible resource to understand what is happening in planning at the moment, and why both the system and individual planners need to be enabled to fulfil their roles towards the collective public interest.” International Journal of Housing Policy


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