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City & Regional Planning |
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111 West Sibley Hall |
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John Forester has served as chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning (1998-2001) and as associate dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (1997-1998).
His research into the micropolitics of the planning process, ethics, and political deliberation assesses the ways planners shape participatory processes and manage public disputes in diverse settings. He served for many years as a mediator for the Community Dispute Resolution Center of Tompkins County, has consulted for the Consensus Building Institute, and has lectured in the past several years in Seattle, Chapel Hill, Sydney, Melbourne, Helsinki, Palermo, Johannesburg, Aix en Provence, Amsterdam and Milan.
Professor Forester's recent writing includes Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes, published in July 2009 by Oxford University Press. He has edited a manuscript (with Ken Reardon) about New Orleans Planning Initiative of the Cornell University City and Regional Planning Department. Forester spent the 2008-2009 academic year on sabbatic leave at the University of Amsterdam's Centre for Conflict Studies.
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Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes, Oxford University Press, July 2009. This book explores the challenges of participatory planning processes.
Book draft on the CRP New Orleans Planning Initiative (edited with Ken Reardon).
Other books include The Deliberative Practitioner (MIT Press 1999) and Israeli Planners and Designers: Profiles of Community Builders (SUNY Press 2001, co-edited with Raphael Fischler and Deborah Shmueli).
Articles published 2007-2008
"On Participation, Negotiation, and the Lessons of Third Party Mediation Efforts," Proceedings of the opening conference of the Laboratorio per la Progettazione Ecologica ed Ambientale del Territorio, Dipartimento di Architettura ed Urbanistica,Università degli Studi di Catania. 2007.
"Exploring Values-Based Disputes" translated by Prof. Laura Lieto for publication in the Italian planning journal, Critica della Razionalità Urbanistica, published by Alinea, Firenze. 2007.
"No Longer Muddling Through: Institutional Designs Fostering Dialogue, Getting the Facts, and Encouraging Mediated-Negotiations," in Niraj Verma, ed. Current Research in Urban and Regional Studies. Elsevier 2007.
"Participation as Dialogue, Debate, and Negotiation: Entangled Promises and Practices," in the International Journal of Public Participation (2007), revised and reprinted in Governance Reform Under Real World Conditions, to be published by the World Bank's Communication and Governance Accountability Program (CommGAP).
“Reflections on the Future Understanding of Planning Practice.” International Planning Studies. 4:2, 175-193. 1999. To be reprinted in Classics in Planning: Urban Planning, eds. T. Levent, P. Batey, K. Burton, and P. Nijkamp. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2007.
“Expanding Problem Frames to Understand Human-wildlife Conflicts in Urban-proximate Parks.” Kirsten M. Leong, Daniel J. Decker, John Forester, Paul D. Curtis, Margaret A. Wild. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. 25:4, 62-78. Winter 2007.
"Propositional and Performative Argumentation: Lessons From the Field," J. Forester and D. Kahane, Chapter 11 in Realizing Deliberative Democracy, D. Kahane, D. Leydet, D. Weinstock and M. Williams, eds. University of British Columbia Press. Forthcoming 2008.
“Learning in Practice: Public Policy Mediation,” David Laws and J. Forester, for Henk Wagenaar, eds. Special Issue of Critical Policy Analysis (forthcoming 2008).
Edited: “Interface: Community Planning and Planning for Real: A Profile of Tony Gibson, with commentaries by Reinhard Goethert, Michael Parkes, Ken Reardon, Iolanda Romano, and Margaret Seip,” Planning Theory and Practice. Vol 9:1, March 2008.
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