Elusive promises : planning in the contemporary world / / edited by Simone Abram, Gisa Weszkalnys
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Elusive promises : planning in the contemporary world / / edited by Simone Abram, Gisa Weszkalnys
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (195 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.1/216 |
| 307.1216 | |
| Soggetto topico: | City planning |
| Urbanization | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | AbramSimone |
| WeszkalnysGisa | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 pl |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Elusive promises |
| ISBN: | 1-78533-213-9 |
| 0-85745-916-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822732503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Dislocations ; ; Volume 11.