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Category Archives: scholarly book reviews
Review of Christopher Alexander’s The Nature of Order
[NOTE: This is a preliminary review as of April 2, 2013.] Twenty-seven years in the making, Christopher Alexander’s lavishly illustrated, 2,200 page, 4-volume The Nature of Order is an extraordinarily beautiful, visionary, ambitious and controversial book that has, astonishingly, not … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Christopher Alexander, complexity, incrementalism, living structure, morphogenesis, persuasive storytelling, physical design, place transformation, planning theory, resilience, sustainability, unfolding, wholeness, wholeness-extending transformations
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Review of Goldstein’s Collaborative Resilience
A complete version of this review can be found at: James A Throgmorton, 2013, Review of Goldstein’s Collaborative Resilience: Moving through Crisis to Opportunity. Journal of Planning Education and Research 33, 1 (Spring): 124-126. On April 17, 2007, a lone … Continue reading
Review of Sanderock and Attili’s Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning
A complete version of this review can be found at: James A. Throgmorton. 2011. Review of Sandercock and Attili’s Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning. Journal of Planning Education and Research 31, 1 (Spring): 112-113. This is a richly … Continue reading
Review of Schneider and Ingram’s Policy Designs for Democracy
Throgmorton, James A. 1999. Review of Schneider and Ingram’s Policy Designs for Democracy. Journal of Planning Education and Research 18 (Spring): 275-277. In Policy Design for Democracy, Schneider and Ingram argue that each of the prominent public policy theories (pluralism, … Continue reading
Review of Faludi and van der Valk’s “Rule and Order”
Throgmorton, James A. 1996. “The Rhetoric of Rule and Order: A Good Story?” A Review of Faludi and Valk’s Rule and Order. Planning Theory 16 (Winter): 63-65. This article reviews Andras Faludi and Arnold van der Valk’s 1994 book, Rule … Continue reading
Review of Daniel Kemmis’ The Good City and the Good Life
James A. Throgmorton. 1997. Journal of the American Planning Association 63, 2 (Spring): 295. This essay reviews Daniel Kemmis’ 1995 book, The Good City and the Good Life. I find much to admire in Kemmis’ effort to reconceptualize politics and the … Continue reading
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Tagged local politics, organic wholeness
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Review of Rob Krueger and David Gibbs’ The Sustainable Development Paradox
James A. Throgmorton. 2008. Journal of Planning Education and Research 27, 4 (Summer): 513-515. This article reviews a 310-page collection of essays edited by Rob Krueger and David Gibbs. On the whole, I find it to be a rich and … Continue reading
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Tagged cyborg world, future, local politics, planning, sustainability
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Review of John Randolph and Gilbert Masters’ Energy for Sustainability
James A. Throgmorton. 2009. Journal of Planning Education and Research 29, 1 (Fall): 119-120. This article reviews John Randolph and Gilbert M. Masters’ 816-page Energy for Sustainability: Technology, Planning, Policy. The review concludes that Energy for Sustainability is a very … Continue reading
Consensus Building in a Context of Storytelling: A Review of Lawrence Susskind et al.’s The Consensus Building Handbook
James A. Throgmorton. 2003. Planning Theory 2, 1: 61-67. This article reviews Lawrence Susskind, Sarah McKearnan, and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer’s The Consensus Building Handbook. The review concludes that the Handbook is a comprehensive and indispensable but dauntingly long guide to consensus … Continue reading
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