Today, urban scholars think of cities and regions as evolving
through networks of human associations, technologies, and natural
ecologies. This being the case, planners are faced with the task of
navigating a profoundly material world. Planning with and for
humans alone is unacceptable: in the unfolding of urban processes,
non-human things cannot be ignored. This inclusive vision has
consequences for how planners envision the connections among norms,
technologies and life-worlds as well as how they design and
implement their plans. The contributors to this volume utilize a
variety of examples - ecologically-sensitive, regional planning in
Naples (Italy); congestion pricing in New York City; and public
participation in Europe, among others - to explore how planners
engage a heterogeneous and restless world. Inspired by assemblage
thinking and actor-network theory, each chapter draws on this "new
materialism" to acknowledge, in quite pragmatic ways, that spatial
politics is a process of becoming that is inseparable from the
materiality of urban practices.
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