Book cover for Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg

Creative Construction

Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond

2026 Released
370 Pages
6-9 Hours
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Bristol University PressISBN 9781529260519

Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.

This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards varieties of democratic planning. Drawing from current socio-economic and ecological movements, it explores what future non-capitalist democratic planning could look like.

Bringing together important voices in the ongoing debates from scholars to activists, this volume proposes an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to democratic planning in the 21st century and beyond.

Jan Groos

Jan Groos is Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Theory, Kiel University.

Christoph Sorg

Christoph Sorg is Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin.

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