The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes
"This book represents the culmination of a decade's work andsucceeds. Forester, perhaps the finest planning theorist in the U.S.,uses a variety of case studies to show how his ideas aboutdeliberation shape planning practice. He speaks to the problems andworries of practitioners and students of planning in all types ofpublic settings. This book will likely prove popular as a text inplanning schools and appeal to professionals in a variety of allieddisciplines."Charles J. Hoch, Professor, Urban Planning and PolicyProgram, University of Illinois at Chicago