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Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World
Simone Abram (Ed.)
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Description for Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World
Paperback. Comprehensively examines the promise which planning offers. Demonstrates how people involved with planning, deal with discrepancies between what it promises and what is done. Offers insight into the varied outcomes of planning. Editor(s): Abram, Simone; Weszkalnys, Gisa. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 190 pages, 9 illustrations and tables. BIC Classification: JHM; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Dislocations
Condition
New
Weight
267g
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785332135
SKU
V9781785332135
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About Simone Abram (Ed.)
Simone Abram is Reader at both Durham University and Leeds Met University, and has worked in interdisciplinary planning departments at Sheffield and Cardiff Universities. Her publications include Culture and Planning (Ashgate, 2011), Rationalities of Planning (with Jonathan Murdoch, Ashgate, 2002), and Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development (co-edited with Jacqueline Waldren, Routledge, 1998).Gisa Weszkalnys is Assistant Professor in the Department of ... Read more
Reviews for Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World
This is a much needed contribution by anthropologists to a sustained and broad treatment of planning as a socio-cultural process, utilizing multiple case studies from multiple perspectives and theoretical frames. Some very insightful analyses can be found in the chapters, particularly regarding the vast differences between places and people around the world, and their efforts to organize reality through what ... Read more