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UNINA9910822732503321 |
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Titolo |
Elusive promises : planning in the contemporary world / / edited by Simone Abram, Gisa Weszkalnys |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-78533-213-9 |
0-85745-916-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (195 p.) |
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Collana |
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Dislocations ; ; Volume 11 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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City planning |
Urbanization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Elusive promises: Planning in the Contemporary World / Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys -- Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State / Halvard Vike -- Hypercomplexity in collective planning: a case of railway design / Åsa Boholm -- The Invaded City: Structuring an Urban Landscape on the Margins of the Possible (Peru's Southern Highlands) / Sarah Lund -- Tenure Reformed? State, society and the landless in South Africa / Deborah James -- Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neoliberal 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 Promises and Personal Promises in the Post-Liberalisation Governance of the Hooghly / Laura Bear. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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