The article discusses key meta-theoretical presuppositions that are key for urban planning to be possible and meaningful, and points to critical realism as a fertile philosophical position for research within the areas of urban planning and development. Several among the currently most influential positions within philosophy of science are, if taken seriously, incompatible with the production of the knowledge base necessary for urban planning to play any meaningful role. For ontological reasons, critical realism considers interdisciplinary integration as necessary in order to arrive at valid knowledge, while competing positions such as positivism and post-structuralism neglect and exclude important parts of reality. Critical realism recogni...
Not only in the Netherlands, but also elsewhere, there is stalemate between modern and postmodern/p...
In Sweden, cities are promoted as drivers of economic growth and solutions for decreased climatic in...
As urban self-organization grows into a key concept in spatial planning-explaining spontaneous spati...
This article starts with an overview of the development of planning theory and ends with a descripti...
Critical realism as a philosophy of science has received some renewed attention, particularly with a...
This thesis argues that there is a prevailing narrow focus in contemporary planning, dominated by th...
What are the discursive pre-conditions for planning? In this dissertation the author analyzes and cr...
Seksjon: Vitenskapelige artikler utenfor temaModernist visions and ideals regarding the urban enviro...
Suburban metropolitan areas in Sweden built in the sixties and seventies are often considered expose...
In this thesis a design-based approach is developed to address the issue of reconceptualising urbani...
The aim of this study is to make clear the conception ”Sustainable Urban Development” through an inv...
Denna uppsats analyserar i första hand hur stort utrymme begreppet platsspecificitet får i dagens st...
As urban self-organization grows into a key concept in spatial planning-explaining spontaneous spati...
How come, that there is often a gap between what is considered good urban design and the built reali...
In this dissertation constructions of contemporary urban ideals are in focus, starting from the unde...
Not only in the Netherlands, but also elsewhere, there is stalemate between modern and postmodern/p...
In Sweden, cities are promoted as drivers of economic growth and solutions for decreased climatic in...
As urban self-organization grows into a key concept in spatial planning-explaining spontaneous spati...
This article starts with an overview of the development of planning theory and ends with a descripti...
Critical realism as a philosophy of science has received some renewed attention, particularly with a...
This thesis argues that there is a prevailing narrow focus in contemporary planning, dominated by th...
What are the discursive pre-conditions for planning? In this dissertation the author analyzes and cr...
Seksjon: Vitenskapelige artikler utenfor temaModernist visions and ideals regarding the urban enviro...
Suburban metropolitan areas in Sweden built in the sixties and seventies are often considered expose...
In this thesis a design-based approach is developed to address the issue of reconceptualising urbani...
The aim of this study is to make clear the conception ”Sustainable Urban Development” through an inv...
Denna uppsats analyserar i första hand hur stort utrymme begreppet platsspecificitet får i dagens st...
As urban self-organization grows into a key concept in spatial planning-explaining spontaneous spati...
How come, that there is often a gap between what is considered good urban design and the built reali...
In this dissertation constructions of contemporary urban ideals are in focus, starting from the unde...
Not only in the Netherlands, but also elsewhere, there is stalemate between modern and postmodern/p...
In Sweden, cities are promoted as drivers of economic growth and solutions for decreased climatic in...
As urban self-organization grows into a key concept in spatial planning-explaining spontaneous spati...