John F Forester

John F. Forester is a professor in the City and Regional Planning Department at Cornell University. He has studied the challenges of urban planning by assessing practice-focused oral histories of planners and public dispute mediators. Forester's work on power, political conversation, dealing with differences, and practical improvisation has appeared in Planning in the Face of Power , Deliberative Practitioner: Making Participatory Planning Work , Dealing with Differences, Planning in the Face...See more

John F. Forester is a professor in the City and Regional Planning Department at Cornell University. He has studied the challenges of urban planning by assessing practice-focused oral histories of planners and public dispute mediators. Forester's work on power, political conversation, dealing with differences, and practical improvisation has appeared in Planning in the Face of Power , Deliberative Practitioner: Making Participatory Planning Work , Dealing with Differences, Planning in the Face of Conflict , and Making Equity Planning Work (with the late Norman Krumholz). See less