Critical Planning and Design

Chapter 1 Critical Planning and Design: Walking Through Roots and Dissenting Imaginations

Chapter 2 Giancarlo Paba’s Trilogy of Luoghi comuni ( Common Places , 1998), Movimenti urbani ( Urban Movements , 2003), Corpi urbani ( Urban Bodies , 2010): Influential Italian “Critical Planning” Thinking

Chapter 3 Ildefonso Cerdà, Teoría General de la Urbanización , 1867: An Innovative Approach

Chapter 4 Concrete Community and Territorial Principle in Adriano Olivetti’s Thought

Chapter 5 All the Layers of an Ecological Commitment at the Frontier: Ian McHarg, Design with Nature , 1969

Chapter 6 L’ Architecture de survie (1978) is Back Talking to EU Cities in Crisis. The Provocative Message by Yona Friedman as a Key for the Present and Future Urban Agenda

Chapter 7 John Friedmann, the Good Society (1979): Panning Pathways for a Just Society

Chapter 8 David Harvey’s Urbanization of Capital (1985): why it helped me so much

Chapter 9 A Place in the World? Places, Cultures and Globalization , 1995. Doreen Massey’s Lessons: Is the World Really Shrinking or Is the Geography of the World Teaching Us Openness and Diversity?

Chapter 10 Patsy Healey and Collaborative Planning (2005): Re-thinking Democracy in the ‘Reasoning in Public’ Arena

Chapter 11 Utopian Tension: Sandercock’s Inspiring Journey “ Towards Cosmopolis ” (1998)

Chapter 12 Zwischenstadt | Inbetween City. Thomas Sieverts, Cities Without Cities : An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt, 2004

Chapter 13 “ Inquiry and Change : The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society ”, 1990. The Radical Contribution of Charles E. Lindblom’s Self-Guiding Society and Probing Volition

Chapter 14 Rediscussing Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia, 1974: Property Titles to Land and Issues of Distributive Justice

Chapter 15 Blade Runner or: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K Dick’s Science Fiction and Maschinenmenschen in Metropolis

Chapter 17 Antonio Gramsci and the Prison Notebooks

Chapter 18 Le droit à la ville , 1968: Reading Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in Planning Perspective

Chapter 19 The Trouble with Henri: Urban Research and the Theory of the Production of Space

Chapter 20 Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille Plateaux , 1980: “The Good Use of Philosophy”

Chapter 21 Georges Didi-Huberman, La survivance des lucioles (2009) . The Thickness of Time: Going Beyond the Surface of the Present to Understand Contemporary Territories