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The Paradoxes of Planning - A Psycho-Analytical Perspective (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Paradoxes of Planning - A Psycho-Analytical Perspective (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Why is it that modern architects and planners - these benevolent
and socially visionary experts - have created environments that can
make one feel so uneasy? Using a philosophical and
psycho-analytical approach, this book critically examines expert
knowledge within architecture and urban planning. Its point of
departure is the gap between visions and realities, intentions and
outcomes in planning, with particular focus on projects in Sweden
that try to create an urban atmosphere. Finding insights from the
work of Sigmund Freud and his followers, the book argues that urban
planning during the 20th century is a neurotic activity prone to
produce a type of alienation. Besides trying to understand the gap
between intentions and outcomes in planning, the book also
discusses how to define the concept of the urban, juxtaposing
different knowledge traditions; contrasting the positivistic theory
of space syntax with poetic-dialectical approaches, the planner
view of the city with that of the flAcneur, examining texts by
Virginia Woolf and August Strindberg.
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