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Friedmann's research focused on processes of urbanization, particularly in China. His most recent books include The Prospect of Cities (2002), China's Urban Transition (2005), and Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory (2011).
Apr 5, 2018 · Professor John Friedmann, the recipient of many professional awards in urban and regional planning, died on June 11, 2017, at the age of 91. He has been called “the greatest planning scholar of the...
- Bish Sanyal
- 2018
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Overview. John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice.
Jul 24, 2022 · Ute Lehrer. Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series ( (UBS)) 546 Accesses. Abstract. John Friedmann’s concept of The Good Society, which he developed in the 1970s and published as a book in 1979, shows his dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice.
- Ute Lehrer
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Jun 16, 2020 · About this book. John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by reason. In this comprehensive treatment of the relation of knowledge to action, which he calls planning, he traces the major intellectual traditions of planning thought and practice.
Aug 30, 2018 · This book is, as the subtitle states, a collection of essays that engages with and reflects on the work of John Friedmann, eminent international planning scholar whose illustrious career spanned over half a century.
Professor John Friedmann, the recipient of many professional awards in urban and regional planning, died on June 11, 2017, at the age of 91. He has been called “the greatest planning scholar of the twentieth century, and undoubtedly so in the field of planning theory” (Healey, 2011, p. xi).
