John Forester

Professor

Department of City and Regional Planning

Cornell University



Studies of Practice 

Essays

Courses and Teaching Materials


The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes


(for several reviews from abroad, click here to go to Amazon.com)


Recent Writing

Gathering Profiles of Practitioners and "Practice Stories" in Classes and Research:

See This Special Site

 

Profiles of Planners: Teaching Materials on Planning Practice

Planning in the Face of Power

Exploring Values Based Disputes

(comments please)  

The Micro-Politics of Planning Practice
(CRP 642 Spring)


Israeli Planners and Designers: Profiles of Community Builders
[ed. with Raphaël Fischler and Deborah Shmueli]

Notes on Writing for Masters Students

On the Craft of Academic Writing 


Negotiation and Mediation in Environmental and Community Disputes
(CRP 546 Fall)


Sample Profiles of Practitioners: Normajean McLaren on community-building
and
Frank Blechman on public participation and dispute resolution



How Design Review Staff Do Far More Than Regulate


[Joongsub Kim and John Forester]
(in progress)


Introduction To Planning Practice

and History

(CRP 513)

 

Community Service-Learning Course: Report and Syllabus
(CRP 457)





AESOP 1998 Keynote Lecture 

 

Faces