Planning and Knowledge : : How New Forms of Technocracy Are Shaping Contemporary Cities / / ed. by Mike Raco, Federico Savini.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Brownill, Sue,; Coletta, Claudio,; Dörry, Sabine,; Evans, Leighton,; Gomes de Matos, Catarina,; Gunn, Susannah,; Heaphy, Liam,; Hebbert, Michael,; Hirvola, Aino,; Kitchin, Rob,; Koolmees, Thijs,; Layard, Antonia,; Livingstone, Nicola,; Mac Donncha, Darach,; Majoor, Stan,; Metzger, Jonathan,; Mäntysalo, Raine,; Mössner, Samuel,; Parker, Gavin,; Ponzini, Davide,; Raco, Mike,; Rauws, Ward,; Savini, Federico,; Street, Emma,; Taşan-Kok, Tuna,; Verloo, Nanke,; Wargent, Matthew,; Weber, Rachel,; Zakhour, Sherif,; de Jong, Martine,; van den Hurk, Martijn,
• HerausgeberIn: Raco, Mike,; Savini, Federico,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 14 Black and White

This book uses an international perspective and draws on a wide range of new conceptual and empirical material to examine the sources of conflict and cooperation within the different landscapes of knowledge that are driving contemporary urban change. Based on the premise that historically established systems of regulation and control are being subject to unprecedented pressures, scholars critically reflect on the changing role of planning and governance in sustainable urban development, looking at how a shift in power relations between expert and local cultures in western planning processes has blurred the traditional boundaries between public, private and voluntary sectors.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Conceptual framings of technocracy -- The rise of a new urban technocracy -- Planning, knowledge and technocracy in historical perspective -- Public planning and bureaucracies in contemporary urban development politics -- Dealing with tensions: the expertise of boundary spanners in facilitating community initiatives -- Plurality of expert knowledge: public planners’ experience with urban contractualism in Amsterdam -- Local government in the face of crisis: changing public management of urban projects in Amsterdam -- Captured by bureaucracy: street-level professionals mediating past, present and future knowledge -- Corporate knowledge and the land and property development sector -- Anticipatory knowledge: how development consultants see the future -- Towards an ‘information technocracy’: discourses of London’s post-referendum real estate markets -- Finance as technocratic agent in urban development -- Planning professionalism in the face of technocracy: ethics, values and practices -- Private consultants and the delivery of public policy -- Professional lobbying in urban planning: depoliticisation or REpoliticisation? -- Advocates, advisors and scrutineers: the technocracies of private sector planning in England -- Localism and the reconfiguration of planning’s publics in the landscapes of technocracy -- The politics of new urban professions: the case of urban development engineers -- New constellations of actors and the management and governance of contemporary cities -- Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urban technocrats -- Planning by numbers: affordable housing and viability in England1 -- Transnational design and local implications for planning: project flights and landings1 -- Researching the best-practice: academic knowledge production, planning and the post-politicisation of environmental politics -- Conclusions: the technocratic logics of contemporary planning -- References -- Index