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Making the Invisible Visible - A Multicultural Planning History (Paperback, New)
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Making the Invisible Visible - A Multicultural Planning History (Paperback, New)
Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 2
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The history of planning is much more, according to these authors,
than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a
profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of
rational, scientific development with alternative histories that
reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the
official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions
of city building and regional development, these stories focus on
previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning.
Through a variety of critical lenses - feminist, postmodern, and
postcolonial-the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant
to the preservation and planning professions. Some contributors
uncover indigenous planning traditions that have been erased from
the record: African American and Native American traditions, for
example. Other contributors explore new themes: themes of gendered
spaces and racist practices, of planning as an ordering tool, a
kind of spatial police, of 'bodies, cities, and social order'
(influenced by Foucault, Lefebvre, and others), and of resistance.
This scrutiny of the class, race, gender, ethnic, or ideological
biases of ideas and practices inherent in the notion of planning as
a modernist social technology clearly points to the inadequacy of
modernist planning histories. "Making the Invisible Visible"
redefines planning as the regulation of the physicality, sociality,
and spatiality of the city. Its histories provide the foundation of
a new, alternative planning paradigm for the multicultural cities
of the future.
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