03241nam 2200625 450 991079067810332120170821200227.01-78533-213-90-85745-916-310.1515/9780857459169(CKB)2550000001125697(EBL)1429463(OCoLC)861538724(SSID)ssj0001001766(PQKBManifestationID)11643073(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001766(PQKBWorkID)10967989(PQKB)10061644(MiAaPQ)EBC1429463(MiAaPQ)EBC5407907(DE-B1597)636827(DE-B1597)9780857459169(EXLCZ)99255000000112569720180730d2016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrElusive promises planning in the contemporary world /edited by Simone Abram, Gisa WeszkalnysNew York ;Oxford :Berghahn,2016.1 online resource (195 p.)Dislocations ;Volume 11Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-915-5 1-299-95086-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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, examine the time and space, creativity and agency, authority and responsibility, and conflicting desires that plans attempt to control. They show how the many people involved with plDislocations ;Volume 11.City planningUrbanizationCity planning.Urbanization.307.1/216307.1216Abram SimoneWeszkalnys GisaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790678103321Elusive promises3710277UNINA