Planning in ten words or less : a Lacanian entanglement with spatial planning / / Michael Gunder, Jean Hillier

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154615403321
• Autore: Gunder M (Michael)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-315-24669-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): HillierJean <1953->
• Disciplina: 307.1/216
• Soggetti: City planning; Regional planning; Geographical perception; Space perception; Psychoanalysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Planning as an empty signifier -- 2. The lack of certainty -- 3. Prescribing the good -- 4. The haunting of risk -- 5. Is smart growth dumb? -- 6. Pressures of competitive globalisation -- 7. Multiculturalism : the other always steals my enjoyment -- 8. Sustainability of and for the market? -- 9. Responsability to whom? -- 10. Beyond the mere rationality of planning.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights that these terms, and others, are mere 'empty signifiers', meaning everything and nothing. Based on international examples of planning practice and process, Planning in Ten Words or Less suggests that spatial and urban planning is largely based on the construction and deployment of ideological knowledge claims.