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Planning and the Multi-local Urban Experience - The Power of Lifescapes (Hardcover)
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Planning and the Multi-local Urban Experience - The Power of Lifescapes (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
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The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a
discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the
fabricated, planned, and governed 'reality' of the state apparatus
at both the local and national level. The book posits
multi-locality as an emerging spatial configuration. The author
draws from various theoretical sources, such as Deleuze and
Guattari's concepts of state or royal science, the Nietzschean
critique of idealism, Hagerstrnad's time-geography, Hintikka's
theory of modalities, Lefebvre's urban society, Castel's network
society, Foucault's concept of heterotopia, and Bhaskar's and
Sartre's theories of presence and absence. He also discusses the
implications of Faludi's post-territorialist critique of planning
and governance, and of the failure to operationalise the concept
quantitively, basing his arguments in the lived experiences of
multi-locals as well. The novelty of the book is how it analyses
multi-locality from such a wide theoretical perspective: what is
the nature and meaning of the different multiple and coexistent
places for people, and how is this spatial transformation related
to their mobility, everyday practices, and work. How does the
presence and absence of places form their identity and their
citizenship? He also addresses the inconsistency between
multi-locality and traditional statistics and the planning and
governance practices based on the assumption of unilocality and
discusses the implications of this incongruity. The book will be of
interest to scholars in urban studies and planning theory, as well
as practitioners developing more adequate practices replacing
outdated ones.
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