Life among urban planners : practice, professionalism, and expertise in the making of the city / edited by Jennifer Mack and Michael Herzfeld.

"The contributors treat planning as a set of critical cultural acts that are both controversial and, in many cases, contested. Planning-and, as this volume places in focus, planners-can then be considered in relation to the social dynamics of the contexts in which they operate: in the planning offic...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:City in the twenty-first century book series.
Other Authors: Mack, Jennifer (Writer on architecture) (Editor)
Herzfeld, Michael, 1947- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Series:City in the twenty-first century book series.
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Physical Description:vi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : Living life among planners / Jennifer Mack
  • Chapter 1. Shaping cultural space : reflections on the politics and cosmology of urbanism / Michael Herzfeld
  • Chapter 2. Why planners need anthropologists / Margaret Crawford
  • Chapter 3. Redesigning the Republic? Public gardens, participatory design, and citizenship in immigrant Paris / Andrew Newman
  • Chapter 4. Zoning as default : the politics of foreign-sponsored urban planning in Siem Reap, Cambodia / Adèle Esposito
  • Chapter 5. An anatomy of failure : planning after the fact in contemporary Bogotá, Colombia / Federico Pérez
  • Chapter 6. A "zoning tombola" : informal planning in Niamey, Niger / Gabriella Körling
  • Chapter 7. Breaking the rules, making the ruler : Syriac homes and the limits of Swedish planning / Jennifer Mack
  • Chapter 8. The scales of justice : region, rights, and responsibility in St. Louis, Missouri / Bruce O'Neill and Kevin Lewis O'Neill
  • Chapter 9. Power without the mustache : urban quality as planning practice in post-industrial Barcelona / Trevor Goldsmith
  • Chapter 10. The games we play : what is participation in urban planning? Insights from Warsaw / Monika Sznel
  • Chapter 11. From the real to the virtual : a Swedish solution for "universal" sustainable development in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm / Mark Graham and Lissa Nordin
  • Afterword : The problem of the present in anthropology and urban planning / James Holston.