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Title

Elusive promises : planning in the contemporary world / edited by Simone Abram, Gisa Weszkalnys.

Publication

New York : Berghahn, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Abram, Simone
• Weszkalnys, Gisa.

Description

vii, 187 p.; 24 cm.

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."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Dislocations ; vol. 11

Uniform Title

Dislocations v. 11.

Subject

• City planning
• Urbanization
• Regionalplanung
• Stadtplanung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Elusive promises : planning in the contemporary world, an introduction / Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys -- Utopian time and contemporary time : temporal dimensions of planning and reform in the Norwegian welfare state / Halvard Vike -- From within a community of planners : hypercomplexity in railway design work / Åsa Boholm -- Invaded city : structuring urban landscapes on the margins of the possible (Peru's Southern Highlands) / Sarah Lund -- Tenure reformed : planning for redress or progress in South Africa / Deborah James -- Redeeming the promise of inclusion in the neo-liberal city : grassroots contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil / John Gledhill -- Even governmentality begins as an image : institutional planning in Kuala Lumpur / Richard Baxstrom -- Making a river of gold : speculative state planning, informality, and neo-liberal governance on the Hooghly / Laura Bear.

ISBN

• 9780857459152 (hardback)
• 0857459155 (hardback)
• 9780857459169 (institutional ebook)
• 0857459163 (institutional ebook)

LCCN

^^2012037851

OCLC

811850317

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library