What Town Planners Do by Abigail Schoneboom
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.
“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
Abigail Schoneboom is Lecturer in Urban Planning at Newcastle University.
Jason Slade is 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447365983 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447365984 |
| Title | What Town Planners Do |
| Author | Abigail Schoneboom |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press |
| Year published | 2024-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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