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Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History
Leonie Sandercock (Ed.)
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Description for Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History
Paperback. Includes essays that counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. This book examines a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. Editor(s): Sandercock, Leonie. Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography. Num Pages: 268 pages, 15. BIC Classification: AC; AMVD; HBTB; JFC; JFSG; JFSJ; JFSL; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 63.
The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning. Through a variety of critical lenses - feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial-the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. ... Read more
The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning. Through a variety of critical lenses - feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial-the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in Critical Human Geography
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520207356
SKU
V9780520207356
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About Leonie Sandercock (Ed.)
Leonie Sandercock is Professor of Human Settlements and Head of the Department of Landscape, Environment, and Planning at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia.
Reviews for Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History
"The book deserves reading by a select audience interested in planning history and theory."
Public Historian
"More than anything else this book represents a clear call to all those involved in the writing (and teaching) of planning history of the need to remember that processes of exclusion are rarely documented in mainstream planning history. . . . The work deserves ... Read more
Public Historian
"More than anything else this book represents a clear call to all those involved in the writing (and teaching) of planning history of the need to remember that processes of exclusion are rarely documented in mainstream planning history. . . . The work deserves ... Read more