Susan Fainstein's Keynote at AESOP/ACSP Cites Planning Theory & Practice Interface

Post date: Sep 27, 2013 8:19:07 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYWvuYzMtU&feature=c4-overview&list=UUt3eeCAXZVK3BKnV8IfhfPA

At the recent AESOP/ASCP conference in Dublin, resilience was one of the conference themes. In particular, the keynote speech from Susan Fainstein introduced an interesting debate on the usefulness of the term and the willingness of academics to grasp 'new' fashionable concepts without much critical thought. Susan Fainstein referred to two of Planning Theory and Practice's Interface sections;

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14649357.2012.677124

- Resilience - Davoudi and Wilkinson

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2012.761904#.UkU6qKW-25Q

- Flooding - specifically the paper by White