ISBN:
9780812252286
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 251 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
The city in the twenty-first century
DDC:
307.1/216
Keywords:
City planning
;
City planning Social aspects
;
City planners
;
Urban anthropology
;
Stadtplaner
;
Stadtplanerin
;
Sozialer Kontakt
;
Wertorientierung
Abstract:
"The contributors treat planning as a set of critical cultural acts that are both controversial and, in many cases, contested. Planning-and, as this volume places in focus, planners-can then be considered in relation to the social dynamics of the contexts in which they operate: in the planning office, on construction sites, in sometimes violent confrontations with those at whom they are directed. What roles do planners have in shaping the social dimensions and daily practices of urban life? How do they employ, manipulate, and reshape the expertise assigned to them for that purpose? The essays here critically examine what planners' persistent commitment to thinking about the future means for the ways in which people live in the present and represent and preserve the past. We are particularly concerned with the social contexts in which planners produce their work, including their cultural values, personal assumptions, social pressures, and beyond"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Living life among planners / Jennifer Mack -- Chapter 1. Shaping cultural space : reflections on the politics and cosmology of urbanism / Michael Herzfeld -- Chapter 2. Why planners need anthropologists / Margaret Crawford -- Chapter 3. Redesigning the Republic? Public gardens, participatory design, and citizenship in immigrant Paris / Andrew Newman -- Chapter 4. Zoning as default : the politics of foreign-sponsored urban planning in Siem Reap, Cambodia / Adèle Esposito -- Chapter 5. An anatomy of failure : planning after the fact in contemporary Bogotá, Colombia / Federico Pérez -- Chapter 6. A "zoning tombola" : informal planning in Niamey, Niger / Gabriella Körling -- Chapter 7. Breaking the rules, making the ruler : Syriac homes and the limits of Swedish planning / Jennifer Mack -- Chapter 8. The scales of justice : region, rights, and responsibility in St. Louis, Missouri / Bruce O'Neill and Kevin Lewis O'Neill -- Chapter 9. Power without the mustache : urban quality as planning practice in post-industrial Barcelona / Trevor Goldsmith -- Chapter 10. The games we play : what is participation in urban planning? Insights from Warsaw / Monika Sznel -- Chapter 11. From the real to the virtual : a Swedish solution for "universal" sustainable development in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm / Mark Graham and Lissa Nordin -- Afterword : The problem of the present in anthropology and urban planning / James Holston.
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Enthält bibliographische Angaben und Index
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