Planning and Knowledge

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