By John Friedmann
For almost fifty years John Friedmann's writings haven't simply led the educational research of the self-discipline, yet have given form and course to the making plans career itself. masking transactive making plans, radical making plans, the idea that of the great urban, civil society, rethinking poverty and the range of making plans cultures, this number of Friedmann's most crucial and influential essays tells a coherent and compelling tale approximately how the evolution of brooding about making plans over a number of many years has helped to form its perform. With each one essay given a brand new advent to set up its context and value, this can be an awesome textual content for the learn of making plans conception and historical past.
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Think of some example from your own experience that would seem to substantiate this theory of learning. Ask practicing planners about their experiences and what they have learned in the course of their practice, and whether they have ever experienced what I call here “mutual learning”. Central to the concept of transactive planning is the practice of dialogue. What I mean by dialogue is set out in a series of seven propositions. This of course is an ideal model that is rarely present under “real world” conditions.
The acceptance of the other in the plenitude of his being as a person different from yourself implies that the relationship cannot always be harmonious. Conflict arises out of your different ways of looking at the world, your different feelings about the world, and your different ways of judging the world. It may also arise from a failure to make your meanings clear within the context of the other’s perceptions and feelings. But conflict can be overcome by a mutual desire to continue in the life of dialogue.
Feyerabend’s was a radical manifesto, creating a philosophical space for multiple knowledges, a concept which, nearly a quarter century later, Leonie Sandercock incorporated into her path-breaking book, Towards Cosmopolis (1998). I took Popper’s writings on science to be a defense of a scientific elite that based its privileged status on claims of exclusive access to objective and therefore trustworthy knowledge about the physical world. Although ostensibly writing about experimental physics, Popper claimed domain over the human sciences as well.
