John F. Forester

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John F. Forester is a planning theorist with a particular emphasis on participatory planning. He is the author of Critical Theory and Public Life (1987), Planning in the Face of Power (1989) and The Deliberative Practitioner (1999).

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John F. Forester was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a BS in 1970 and an MS in 1971. He completed a Master of City Planning in 1974, and a PhD in 1977, also at the University of California. His continued academic interest in planning led to his 1985 edited collection, Critical Theory and Public Life (MIT Pr.), and later works Planning in the Face of Power (1989, U. Calif. Pr.) and The Deliberative Practitioner (1989,MIT Pr.).

In 1998 Forester was appointed chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, a position he held until 2001. He has remained with the College as an academic, and has served as associate dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. He is a mediator for the Community Dispute Resolution Center of Tompkins County, has consulted for the Consensus Building Institute, and has lectured in Seattle, Chapel Hill, Sydney, Melbourne, Helsinki, Palermo, Johannesburg, Brisbane and Aix en Provence.