Planning and Knowledge
How New Forms of Technocracy Are Shaping Contemporary Cities
1st Edition
Published on 10. July 2019
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-4473-4524-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book uses a broad international perspective to examine the different landscapes of knowledge driving contemporary urban change, as historically established systems of regulation and control are being subject to unprecedented pressures from multiple directions. Its authors reflect on the shift in power relations between expert and local cultures in planning processes, examining its disruptive effect on the traditional separation between public, private, and voluntary sectors.
Reviews / Votes
"Planning and Knowledge is an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary politics and urban development. It highlights the dilemmas of an urban world that appears to be increasingly in the hands of technocrats seeking to depoliticise policy and practice". Rob Imrie, Goldsmiths, University of LondonMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 s/w Tabellen, 14 s/w Abbildungen
7 Tables, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-4524-4 (9781447345244)
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Persons
Mike Raco is Professor of Urban Governance and Development in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.
Federico Savini is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies.
Federico Savini is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies.
Content
Part I: Conceptual framings of technocracy
The rise of a new urban technocracy ~ Federico Savini and Mike Raco
Planning, knowledge and technocracy in historical perspective ~ Michael Hebbert
Part II: Public planning and bureaucracies in contemporary urban development politics
Dealing with tensions: the expertise of boundary spanners in facilitating community initiatives ~ Ward Rauws and Martine de Jong
Plurality of expert knowledge: public planners' experience with urban contractulism in Amsterdam ~ Tuna Tasan-Kok & Martijn van den Hurk
Local government in the face of crisis: changing public management of urban projects in Amsterdam ~ Thijs Koolmees and Stan Majoor
Captured by bureaucracy: street-level professionals mediating past, present and future knowledge ~ Nanke Verloo
Part III: Corporate knowledge and the land and property development sector
Anticipatory knowledge: how development consultants see the future ~ Rachel Weber
Towards an `information technocracy': discourses of London's post-referendum real estate markets ~ Nicola Livingstone
Finance as technocratic agent in urban development ~ Sabine Doerry
Planning professionalism in the face of technocracy: ethics, values and practices ~ Susannah Gunn
Part IV: private consultants and the delivery of public policy
Professional lobbying in urban planning: depoliticization or REpoliticization? ~ Aino Hirvola and Raine Maentysalo
Advocates, advisors and scrutineers: the technocracies of private sector planning in England ~ Gavin Parker, Emma Street and Matthew Wargent
Localism and the reconfiguration of planning's publics in the landscapes of technocrac ~ Sue Brownill
The politics of new urban professions: the case of urban development engineers ~ Jonathan Metzger and Sherif Zakhour
Part V: New constellations of actors and the management and governance of contemporary cities
Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urban technocrats ~ Rob Kitchin, Claudio Coletta, Leighton Evans, Liam Heaphy and Darach Mac Donncha
Planning by numbers: affordable housing and viability in England ~ Antonya Layard
Transnational design and local implications for planning: project flights and landings ~ Davide Ponzini
Researching the best-practice: academic knowledge production, planning and the post-politicisation of environmental politics ~ Samuel Moessner and Catarina Gomes de Matos
Conclusions: The technocratic logics of contemporary planning ~ Federico Savini and Mike Raco
The rise of a new urban technocracy ~ Federico Savini and Mike Raco
Planning, knowledge and technocracy in historical perspective ~ Michael Hebbert
Part II: Public planning and bureaucracies in contemporary urban development politics
Dealing with tensions: the expertise of boundary spanners in facilitating community initiatives ~ Ward Rauws and Martine de Jong
Plurality of expert knowledge: public planners' experience with urban contractulism in Amsterdam ~ Tuna Tasan-Kok & Martijn van den Hurk
Local government in the face of crisis: changing public management of urban projects in Amsterdam ~ Thijs Koolmees and Stan Majoor
Captured by bureaucracy: street-level professionals mediating past, present and future knowledge ~ Nanke Verloo
Part III: Corporate knowledge and the land and property development sector
Anticipatory knowledge: how development consultants see the future ~ Rachel Weber
Towards an `information technocracy': discourses of London's post-referendum real estate markets ~ Nicola Livingstone
Finance as technocratic agent in urban development ~ Sabine Doerry
Planning professionalism in the face of technocracy: ethics, values and practices ~ Susannah Gunn
Part IV: private consultants and the delivery of public policy
Professional lobbying in urban planning: depoliticization or REpoliticization? ~ Aino Hirvola and Raine Maentysalo
Advocates, advisors and scrutineers: the technocracies of private sector planning in England ~ Gavin Parker, Emma Street and Matthew Wargent
Localism and the reconfiguration of planning's publics in the landscapes of technocrac ~ Sue Brownill
The politics of new urban professions: the case of urban development engineers ~ Jonathan Metzger and Sherif Zakhour
Part V: New constellations of actors and the management and governance of contemporary cities
Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urban technocrats ~ Rob Kitchin, Claudio Coletta, Leighton Evans, Liam Heaphy and Darach Mac Donncha
Planning by numbers: affordable housing and viability in England ~ Antonya Layard
Transnational design and local implications for planning: project flights and landings ~ Davide Ponzini
Researching the best-practice: academic knowledge production, planning and the post-politicisation of environmental politics ~ Samuel Moessner and Catarina Gomes de Matos
Conclusions: The technocratic logics of contemporary planning ~ Federico Savini and Mike Raco