The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures/Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Foreword -- Part 1 Institutions in Action -- 1 Institutions in Action -- Relational Analysis of Planning: A Common Denominator -- Fundamental Differences in Pragmatism and Institutional Thought -- Purposive and Consequential Relationships -- The Patterning of Public Norms: Imposing Conditions -- The Logic of Philosophical Pragmatism -- The Moral Dimension -- The Democratic and Communicative Dimension -- The Experimental Dimension -- The Logic of Institutional Thinking -- Towards a Co-Evolution of Norm and Purpose -- To Conclude: The Research Questions for this Volume -- Note -- References -- 2 Developing a 'Sociological Institutionalist' Approach to Analysing Institutional Change in Place Governance -- Introduction -- Understanding the Institutional Dimensions of Place Governance: A Personal Exploration -- Planning as Practised versus Planning as a Decision Process -- Planning Ideas and Planning Practices -- Analysing Attempts at Governance Change -- Conceptualising Innovation and Transformative Change in Place Governance in a 'Sociological Institutionalist' ... -- The Key Questions Reviewed -- The Structuring Role of Institutions -- Innovation and Transformative Change in Institutions -- A Pragmatic Approach to Governance Interventions -- Concluding Comment -- Notes -- References -- 3 Political Articulation and Hegemonic Practices in the Institutionalization of the Urban Order -- Introduction -- 'Institutions in Action': Neo-Institutionalist Perspectives -- Institutional Orders and the Institutionalization of Meaning -- Governance and Regulation as Emergent Institutional Orders -- Urban 'Institutions in Action': Exploring the Dis-/Re-Articulation of Urban Political Orders