Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood
as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional
development to economic planning. This volume sees planning
differently-as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers
space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a
promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors,
all leading anthropologists, examine the time and space, creativity
and agency, authority and responsibility, and conflicting desires
that plans attempt to control. They show how the many people
involved with planning deal with the discrepancies between what is
promised and what is done. The comparative essays offer insight
into the expected and unexpected outcomes of planning (from
visionary utopias to bureaucratic dystopia or something
in-between), how the future is envisioned at the outset, and what
actual work is done and how it affects people's lives.
Simone Abram is Reader at both Durham University and Leeds Met
University, and has worked in interdisciplinary planning
departments at Sheffield and Cardiff Universities. Her publications
include "Culture and Planning" (Ashgate, 2011), "Rationalities of
Planning" (with Jonathan Murdoch, Ashgate, 2002), and
"Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development" (co-edited with
Jacqueline Waldren, Routledge, 1998).
Gisa Weszkalnys is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at
the London School of Economics. Her book, "Berlin, Alexanderplatz:
Transforming Place in a Unified Germany" (Berghahn Books, 2010)
tackles the intricate politics of place in contemporary Berlin. She
is currently working on a manuscript focusing on the temporality
and materiality of oil exploitation, specifically in West
Africa.
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