John F. Forester

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John F. Forester is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Cornell University

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John F. Forester's Degrees

PhD City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
Masters City and Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Urban Studies Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, John F. Forester is a planning theorist with a particular emphasis on participatory planning. His scholarship appeals moral philosophy, oral history and ethnographic social science, as well as planning and policy studies. He is the author of Critical Theory and Public Life , Planning in the Face of Power , The Deliberative Practitioner and "Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes" .

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John F. Forester's Published Works

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Published Works

Planning in the Face of Power. (1988) (2226)
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning (1993) (1678)
The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes (1999) (947)
Critical theory, public policy, and planning practice : toward a critical pragmatism (1993) (337)
Critical Theory and Planning Practice (1980) (323)
Bounded Rationality and the Politics of Muddling Through (1984) (195)
Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes (2009) (188)
Critical theory, public policy, and planning practice (1993) (182)
On the theory and practice of critical pragmatism: Deliberative practice and creative negotiations (2013) (161)
Planning In the Face of Conflict: Negotiation and Mediation Strategies in local Land Use Regulation (1987) (154)
Critical Theory and Public Life (1987) (127)
Making Participation Work When Interests Conflict: Moving from Facilitating Dialogue and Moderating Debate to Mediating Negotiations (2006) (119)
Confronting values in policy analysis : the politics of criteria (1987) (88)
Reflections on the future understanding of planning practice (1999) (85)
Dealing with Deep Value Differences (1999) (84)
Learning to Improve Practice: Lessons from Practice Stories and Practitioners' Own Discourse Analyses (or Why Only the Loons Show Up) (2012) (57)
Urban and Regional Planning in an Age of Austerity (1980) (57)
On Fieldwork in a Habermasian Way: Critical Ethnography and the Extra-ordinary Character of Ordinary Professional Work (2003) (56)
Bridging Interests and Community: Advocacy Planning and the Challenges of Deliberative Democracy (1994) (48)
Learning from Practice Stories: The Priority of Practical Judgment (2020) (46)
A Review of “Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons From Jazz” (2013) (40)
Beyond Dialogue to Transformative Learning: How Deliberative Rituals Encourage Political Judgment in Community Planning Processes (1997) (39)
Beyond Neutrality.: The Possibilities of Activist Mediation in Public Sector Conflicts (1989) (36)
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance: Street Level Practices for Urban Democracy (2015) (36)
An Instructive Case-study Hampered by Theoretical Puzzles: Critical Comments on Flyvbjerg's Rationality and Power (2001) (35)
Responding to Critical Moments with Humor, Recognition, and Hope (2004) (34)
Exploring urban practice in a democratising society: opportunities, techniques and challenges (2006) (33)
Designing: Making Sense Together in Practical Conversations (1985) (32)
Participatory action research from the inside: Community development practice in East St. Louis (1993) (32)
Questioning and Organizing Attention (1981) (29)
Reflections on trying to teach planning theory (2004) (27)
Beyond neutrality (1989) (27)
Learning in practice: Public policy mediation (2007) (25)
Policy Analysis as Critical Listening (2008) (25)
Beyond blame: leadership, collaboration and compassion in the time of COVID-19 (2020) (23)
The Policy Analysis-Critical Theory Affair: Wildavsky and Habermas as Bedfellows? (1982) (23)
Five generations of theory–practice tensions: enriching socio-ecological practice research (2019) (22)
The Geography of Planning Practice (1983) (22)
Policymaking, communication, and social learning : essays of Sir Geoffrey Vickers (1987) (22)
Enacting reflective and deliberative practices in action research (2019) (20)
White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (2017) (19)
Planning in the Face of Conflict: The Surprising Possibilities of Facilitative Leadership (2013) (17)
Ecological wisdom through deliberative improvisation: Theory and practice in challenging cases (2019) (17)
What kind of research might help us become better planners? (2015) (15)
Practices of Freedom: Learning through Contested Governance: The Practice of Agonistic Intersubjectivity (2014) (14)
Learning from practice: environmental and community mapping as participatory action research in planning (2017) (14)
Are collaboration and participation more trouble than theyre worth (2008) (13)
On the theory-practice gap in the environmental realm: perspectives from and for diverse environmental professionals (2021) (13)
Critical Reason and Political Power in Project Review Activity: Serving Freedom in Planning and Public Administration (1982) (12)
A critical empirical framework for the analysis of public policy (1982) (12)
“Planning in the Face of Conflict” (2020) (12)
The Coming Design Challenge (1983) (11)
Judgment and the Cultivation of Appreciation in Policy-Making (1994) (11)
Moving public participation beyond compliance: uncommon approaches to finding common ground (2009) (10)
Response: Toward a critical sociology of policy analysis (1995) (10)
Creating public value in planning and urban design: the three abiding problems of negotiation, participation and deliberation (1998) (10)
Reimagining planning: moving from reflective practice to deliberative practice - a first exploration in the Italian context (2017) (10)
Confronting the challenge of humanist planning/Towards a humanist planning/A humanist perspective on knowledge for planning: implications for theory, research, and practice/To learn to plan, write stories/Three practices of humanism and critical pragmatism/Humanism or beyond? (2017) (9)
How design review staff do far more than regulate (2012) (8)
Challenges of Deliberation and Participation (2018) (8)
WHAT DO PLANNING ANALYSTS DO? PLANNING AND POLICY ANALYSIS AS ORGANIZING* (1980) (8)
Teaching and Studying Planning Practice: An Analysis of the "Planning and Institutional Processes" Course at MIT (1987) (7)
Critical theory and public life: only connect (1986) (7)
Israeli Planners and Designers: Profiles of Community Builders (2001) (7)
Expanding Problem Frames to Understand Human-wildlife Conflicts in Urban-proximate Parks (2007) (7)
Our curious silence about kindness in planning: Challenges of addressing vulnerability and suffering (2020) (7)
Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory: A Critical Response (1981) (6)
Argument, Power, and Passion in Planning Practice (2017) (6)
The challenge of transformative learning: mining practice stories to study collaboration and dispute resolution strategies (2016) (6)
Dealing with Deep Value Differences in Participatory Processes (2009) (6)
Rationality and Surprise: The Drama of Mediation in Rebuilding Civil Society (2005) (6)
Order Without Design: Information and Policy Making. (1991) (5)
Political judgement and learning about value in transportation planning: Bridging Habermas and Aristotle (2017) (5)
Daunting or inviting: “context” as your working theory of practice (2016) (5)
Israeli Planners and Designers (2001) (5)
From Good Intentions to A Critical Pragmatism (2012) (5)
Rethinking risk management policies: from 'participation' to processes of dialogue, debate, and negotiation (2009) (4)
Statistical selection of business strategies (1970) (4)
Ecological practical wisdom: common stances across design and planning (2019) (4)
On Planning Practice: Materialism and Politics (1983) (4)
Creative discretion and the structure of context-responsive improvising (2021) (4)
Kindness, Planners’ Response to Vulnerability, and an Ethics of Care in the Time of Covid-19 (2020) (4)
How much does the environmental review planner do (1980) (3)
Creating spaces for action: Lessons from frontline planners in the Great Barrier Reef (2017) (3)
Rebuilding Community after Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative (2015) (2)
Editorial (2011) (2)
6 – Toward Democratic Health Planning: Political Power, Agenda-Setting, and Planning Practice (1981) (2)
On the writing of “How spaces become places: place makers tell their stories” (2022) (2)
Rethinking Religion and Secularism in Urban Planning (2021) (2)
How Much do We Care about Progressive and Radical Practice (2013) (1)
On Teaching Planning Theory and Practice: Four Striking Exercises (2021) (1)
Planning and Mediation, Participation and Posturing: (2009) (1)
Cultivating Surprise and the Art of the Possible (2009) (1)
Toward a naturalistic research ethics: or how mediators must act well to learn, if they are to practice effectively (2009) (1)
Public Policy Mediation: From Argument to Collaboration (2017) (1)
Book Review Essayists: John Forester (2009) (1)
TOWARD AN ETHICAL AND POLITICALLY CRITICAL PlANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE (2012) (1)
Editorial (2009) (1)
Rhetoric or Reason@@@The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning (1995) (1)
Introduction:: Working against the Odds: Mobilizing Three University Teams to Collaborate with an Activist Community Organization (2015) (0)
From Modernity to Postmodernity: Two Views of Planning and Public Administration@@@Mastering the Politics of Planning: Crafting Credible Plans and Policies That Make a Difference@@@Planning in the Face of Power (1991) (0)
Conclusion:Transforming Participatory Processes (2009) (0)
Editorial (2008) (0)
Creating Spaces for Action (2017) (0)
Practical Consensus Building in the Face of Deep Value Differences (2009) (0)
List of Referees for Papers Received in 2006 (2007) (0)
Truth Telling in the Face of Power: A Review of Daniel O'Connell and Scott Peters, In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California (New York: New Village Press, 2021) (2022) (0)
Options Analysis as Context-Responsiveness in Practice: Integrating Diagnosis, Expertise, and Negotiation (Refining Communicative Planning and Critical Pragmatism) (2022) (0)
The Rationality of Listening, Emotional Sensitivity, and Moral Vision (2017) (0)
Norm’s Modesty: Testimonial for Norman Krumholz (2020) (0)
Struggles and joys of teaching planning: Insights from Charlie Hoch (2020) (0)
From Garbage in the Streets to Organizers’ OpportunitiesNavigating the Institutional Pragmatics of Democratic Inter-Subjectivity (2018) (0)
Obstacles and Strategies in Environmental Review Planning (2019) (0)
Father's Tales (2016) (0)
ACSP Distinguished Educator, 2005: Lawrence Susskind (2020) (0)
Planners and the Public (1985) (0)
Introduction: Keeping an Eye on New Possibilities (2010) (0)
Exploring Values-Based Disputes (2009) (0)
Conclusion Planning, Learning, and Governing Through Conflict (2017) (0)
Learning the Craft of Academic Writing (2014) (0)
10. The Future of Equity Planning Education in the United States (2019) (0)
On the Ethics of Planning: What Profiles of Planners Can Teach Us About Practical Judgment and Moral Improvisation (2017) (0)
Making Public Participation in Governance Work (2009) (0)
Special issue on planning education (1986) (0)
Dancing Around Male Violence: The All Too Ordinary Backstory to Barshefsky’s Extra‐ordinary Practice (2020) (0)
Giancarlo Paba’s Map: A Remembrance (2020) (0)
Hazards of Argumentation: How the Rhetoric of Good Reasons Can Narrow Attention and Undermine Planning Imagination (2018) (0)
List of Referees for Papers Received in 2005 (2007) (0)
Book Review: Habermas: Critical Debates (1983) (0)
The Policy Analysis-Critical Theory Affair: (2016) (0)
The Forms of Cities: City Planning (1994) (0)
Italian planning overview and perspectives through stories and profiles. Notes from a critical pragmatist research on planning practices A Bias (2016) (0)
In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California (2021) (0)
Planners' worries about ethics and direction for future research (1994) (0)
Book Review: Robert E. Goodin, Reflective Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 279, £19.99 (2003) (0)
How design review staff do far more than regulate (2012) (0)
4. The Pragmatic Politics of Multicultural Democracy (2015) (0)
Our infatuation with the object of planning: If only we could read off and follow the rules (2013) (0)
“You Better Werk, Hunty”: Transformations in drag queen culture in central Kansas (2015) (0)

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