Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Study an example of bold and imaginative planning and you will encounter leadership -probably inspirational leadership.Planning practitioners understand this well enough.In contrast planning theorists seem to regard leadership as an intellectual 'no go' zone.Many planning theory books pay no attention to leadership at all.By drawing on new comparative, international research on place-based leadership, this paper hopes to encourage planning scholars and practitioners to give more attention to the nature of leadership in urban planning.The author is preparing a book -Leading the Inclusive City.Place-based innovation for a bounded planet -for publication in 2014.This paper, which introduces themes that are examined at greater length in the book, discusses evolving debates about governance and leadership, sets out a new conceptual model for understanding placebased leadership and, in particular, highlights the role of civic leadership in promoting public service innovation.The paper closes with a discussion of possible implications for planning research.place-based leadership provides but one way of injecting leadership theory into planning theory.Leadership theories provide many valuable insights on how to guide future action, and this paper does not claim to offer a comprehensive analysis.The aim is more modest.It is hoped that the notion of place-based leadership can provide an entry point for urban planning scholars into the literature relating to leadership and, in particular, the relationship between leadership and innovation -in particular, innovation that seeks to create an inclusive city.i The central importance of leadership in urban planningOur first proposition is that urban planning depends on good leadership.Evidence to support this claim can be drawn from two sources: the history of urban planning, and present practice in urban planning.Sir Peter Hall, in his classic study of the intellectual history of urban planning and design in the 20 th Century, identifies many examples of influential planners who have exercised remarkable civic leadership (Hall 1988).In Cities of Tomorrow Hall discusses the achievements of, amongst others,
Author: Robin Hambleton
Institution: University of the West of England
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W160854202