Planning and knowledge

Part I Conceptual Framings of Technocracy

Chapter 1: The Rise of a New Urban Technocracy, Federico Savini and Mike Raco
Chapter 2: Planning, Knowledge and Technocracy in Historical Perspective, Michael Hebbert

Part II Public Planning and Bureaucracies in Contemporary Urban Development Politics

Chapter 3: Dealing with tensions: the expertise of boundary spanners in facilitating community initiatives, Ward Rauws and Martine de Jong
Chapter 4: Are public planners becoming project contractors? Pluralism of expert knowledge in Amsterdam's experience with urban contractualism, Tuna Tasan-Kok & Martijn van den Hurk
Chapter 5: Local government in the face of crisis - Changing public management of urban projects in Amsterdam, Thijs Koolmees and Stan Majoor
Chapter 6: 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

Chapter 7: Anticipatory Knowledge: How Development Consultants See the Future, Rachel Weber
Chapter 8: Towards an `information technocracy': Discourses of London's post-referendum real estate markets, Nicola Livingstone
Chapter 9: Finance as technocratic agent in urban development, Sabine Doerry
Chapter 10: Planning Professionalism in the Face of Technocracy: Ethics, values, and practices, Susannah Gunn

Part IV Private Consultants and the Delivery of Public Policy

Chapter 11: Professional lobbying in urban planning - Depoliticization or REpoliticization?, Aino Hirvola & Raine Maentysalo
Chapter 12: Advocates, Advisors and Scrutineers: the technocracies of private sector planning in England, Gavin Parker, Emma Street and Matthew Wargent
Chapter 13: Localism and the Reconfiguration of Planning's Publics in the Landscapes of Technocracy, Sue Brownill
Chapter 14: The politics of new urban professions: the case of urban development engineers, Jonathan Metzger & Sherif Zakhour

Part V New Constellations of Actors and the Management and Governance of Contemporary Cities.

Chapter 15: Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urban technocrats, Rob Kitchin, Claudio Coletta, Leighton Evans, Liam Heaphy and Darach Mac Donncha
Chapter 16: Planning by Numbers: Affordable Housing and Viability in England, Antonya Layard
Chapter 17: Transnational design and local implications for planning:
Project flights and landings, Davide Ponzini,
Chapter 18: Researching the best-practice: Academic knowledge production, planning and the post-politicization of environmental politics, Samuel Moessner and Catarina Gomes de Matos

Chapter 19: Conclusions - The Technocratic logics of contemporary planning, Federico Savini & Mike Raco