Planning for a Material World

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Synopsis
Today, urban scholars think of cities and regions as evolving through networks of human associations, technologies, and natural ecologies. This being the case, planners are faced with the　task of navigating a profoundly material world. Planning　with and for humans alone is unacceptable: in the unfolding of urban processes, non-human things cannot be ignored. This inclusive vision has consequences for how planners envision the connections among norms, technologies and life-worlds as well as how they design and implement their plans.　 The contributors to this volume utilize a variety of examples – ecologically-sensitive, regional planning　in Naples (Italy); congestion pricing in New York City; and public participation　in Europe, among others – to explore how planners　engage a heterogeneous and restless world. Inspired by assemblage thinking and actor-network theory, each chapter draws on this "new materialism" to acknowledge, in quite pragmatic ways, that spatial politics is a process of becoming that is inseparable from the materiality of urban practices.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
168 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317564478
Related ISBNs:
9781315735603, 9781138392878, 9781138392878, 9781138830677, 9781138830677, 9781138830677, 9781315735603, 9781138392878
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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N/A
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Laura Lieto
Edited by:
Robert A. Beauregard

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