Elusive Promises

Planning in the Contemporary World
Herausgeber: Abram, Simone; Weszkalnys, Gisa

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Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on the idea of the promise as a way to understand planning through time. Ethnographic accounts from highly-regarded anthropologists on planning. Comparative study of planning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9781785332135
• ISBN-10: 1785332139
• Artikelnr.: 44397628

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Chapter 1. Elusive promises: Planning in the Contemporary World An
Introduction
Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys
Chapter 2. Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of
Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State
Halvard Vike
Chapter 3. Hypercomplexity in collective planning: a case of railway design
Åsa Boholm
Chapter 4. The Invaded City: Structuring an Urban Landscape on the Margins
of the Possible (Peru's Southern Highlands)
Sarah Lund
Chapter 5. Tenure Reformed? State, society and the landless in South Africa
Deborah James
Chapter 6. Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neoliberal City:
Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
John Gledhill
Chapter 7. Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning
in Kuala Lumpur
Richard Baxstrom
Chapter 8. Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Promises and Personal
Promises in the Post-Liberalisation Governance of the Hooghly
Laura Bear
Bibliography
Index