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 of Conflict, and Making Equity Planning Work (with the late Norman Krumholz).