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Elusive Promises : Planning in the Contemporary World / ed. by Gisa Weszkalnys, Simone Abram.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dislocations ; 11Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857459152
  • 9780857459169
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1/216 23
LOC classification:
  • HT166 .E467 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World. An Introduction -- Chapter One. Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State -- Chapter Two. From Within a Community of Planners: Hypercomplexity in Railway Design Work -- Chapter Three. Invaded City: Structuring Urban Landscapes on the Margins of the Possible (Peru’s Southern Highlands) -- Chapter Four. Tenure Reformed: Planning for Redress or Progress in South Africa -- Chapter Five. Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neo-liberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil -- Chapter Six. Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur -- Chapter Seven. Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Planning, Informality and Neo-liberal Governance on the Hooghly -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently—as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors, all leading anthropologists, examine the time and space, creativity and agency, authority and responsibility, and conflicting desires that plans attempt to control. They show how the many people involved with planning deal with the discrepancies between what is promised and what is done. The comparative essays offer insight into the expected and unexpected outcomes of planning (from visionary utopias to bureaucratic dystopia or something in-between), how the future is envisioned at the outset, and what actual work is done and how it affects people’s lives.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World. An Introduction -- Chapter One. Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State -- Chapter Two. From Within a Community of Planners: Hypercomplexity in Railway Design Work -- Chapter Three. Invaded City: Structuring Urban Landscapes on the Margins of the Possible (Peru’s Southern Highlands) -- Chapter Four. Tenure Reformed: Planning for Redress or Progress in South Africa -- Chapter Five. Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neo-liberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil -- Chapter Six. Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur -- Chapter Seven. Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Planning, Informality and Neo-liberal Governance on the Hooghly -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently—as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors, all leading anthropologists, examine the time and space, creativity and agency, authority and responsibility, and conflicting desires that plans attempt to control. They show how the many people involved with planning deal with the discrepancies between what is promised and what is done. The comparative essays offer insight into the expected and unexpected outcomes of planning (from visionary utopias to bureaucratic dystopia or something in-between), how the future is envisioned at the outset, and what actual work is done and how it affects people’s lives.

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In English.

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