Critical theory, public policy, and planning practice : toward a critical pragmatism

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Critical theory, public policy, and planning practice : toward a critical pragmatism / John Forester.

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-200) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:: 1. Toward A Critical Pragmatism: The Contemporary Relevance, Promises, and Problems of Critical Theory -- 2. Understanding Planning Practice: An Empirical, Practical, and Normative Account -- 3. The Micropolitics of Planning and Policy Practices: Questioning and Organizing Attention -- 4. Practical Rationality: From Bounded Rationality to the Critique of Ideology in Practice -- 5. The Geography of Practice and the Terrain of Resistance -- 6. Challenges of Organization and Mobilization: Examples from Community-Labor Coalitions -- 7. Toward a Critical Sociology of Public Policy: Probing Policy-shaped Contra-Dictions in the Communicative Infrastructure of Society.