City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the
world-from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning
documents and conference rooms-yet most seem to have a poor
understanding of the materiality of the world in which they're
immersed. Too often planners treat built forms, weather patterns,
plants, animals, or regulatory technologies as passively awaiting
commands rather than actively involved in the workings of cities
and regions. In the ambitious and provocative Planning Matter,
Robert A. Beauregard sets out to offer a new materialist
perspective on planning practice that reveals the many ways in
which the nonhuman things of the world mediate what planners say
and do. Drawing on actor-network theory and science and technology
studies, Beauregard lays out a framework that acknowledges the
inevitable insufficiency of our representations of reality while
also engaging more holistically with the world in all of its
diversity-including human and nonhuman actors alike.
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