Planning in Ten Words or Less

A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning
Neuauflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7457-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights that these terms, and others, are mere 'empty signifiers', meaning everything and nothing. Based on international examples of planning practice and process, Planning in Ten Words or Less suggests that spatial and urban planning is largely based on the construction and deployment of ideological knowledge claims.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gunder, Michael

Hillier, Jean

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Planning as an empty signifier; The lack of certainty; Prescribing the good; The haunting of risk; Is smart growth dumb?; Pressures of competitive globalisation; Multiculturalism: the other always steals my enjoyment; Sustainability of and for the market?; Responsibility to whom?; Beyond the mere rationality of planning; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Michael Gunder is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Professor Jean Hillier is Associate Dean, Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University, Australia