Simone (Hrsg.) Abram

Elusive Promises

Planning in the Contemporary World

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Weszkalnys, Gisa (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78533-213-5
EAN: 9781785332135
Produktnummer: 19319903
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 196 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 293 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 293

Über den Autor

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).