Relational planning : tracing artefacts, agency and practices

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"This volume introduces the notion of ‘relational planning’ through a collection of theoretical and empirical contributions that explore the making of heterogeneous associations in the planning practice. The analytical concept builds on recent approaches to complexity and materiality in planning theory by drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS) of urban issues. It frames planning as a socio-material practice taking place within the multifaceted relations between artefacts, agency and practices. By way of this triad, spatial planning is not studied as a given, linear or technical process but rather problematized as a hybrid, distributed and situational practice. The inquiries in this collection thus describe how planning practices are negotiated and enacted in and beyond formal arenas and procedures of planning, and so make visible the many sites, actors and means of spatial planning.Addressing planning topics such as ecology, preservation, participation, rebuilding and zoning, this volume takes into account the uncertain world planning is embedded in. The implications of such a perspective are considered in light of how planning is performed and how it contributes to the emergence of specific socio-material forms and interactions. This is an invaluable read for all scholars of STS, Ecology, Architecture and Urban Planning."-- Read more... Abstract: "This volume introduces the notion of ‘relational planning’ through a collection of theoretical and empirical contributions that explore the making of heterogeneous associations in the planning practice. The analytical concept builds on recent approaches to complexity and materiality in planning theory by drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS) of urban issues. It frames planning as a socio-material practice taking place within the multifaceted relations between artefacts, agency and practices. By way of this triad, spatial planning is not studied as a given, linear or technical process but rather problematized as a hybrid, distributed and situational practice. The inquiries in this collection thus describe how planning practices are negotiated and enacted in and beyond formal arenas and procedures of planning, and so make visible the many sites, actors and means of spatial planning.Addressing planning topics such as ecology, preservation, participation, rebuilding and zoning, this volume takes into account the uncertain world planning is embedded in. The implications of such a perspective are considered in light of how planning is performed and how it contributes to the emergence of specific socio-material forms and interactions. This is an invaluable read for all scholars of STS, Ecology, Architecture and Urban Planning." Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction: An Invitation to Inquire the Relations Inside Planning (Marko Marskamp, Julio Paulos, Monika Kurath, Jean Ruegg)....Pages 3-26 Front Matter ....Pages 27-27 Analysing Urban Government at a Distance: With and Beyond Actor-Network Theory (Ola Söderström)....Pages 29-50 Artefacts, the Gaze and Sensory Experience: Mediating Local Environments in the Planning Regulation of Major Renewable Energy Infrastructure in England and Wales (Yvonne Rydin, Lucy Natarajan, Maria Lee, Simon Lock)....Pages 51-74 Politics of Zoning: Plans, Procedures and Publics in Land-Use Change (Marko Marskamp)....Pages 75-96 Front Matter ....Pages 97-97 Can the Craft of Planning Be Ecologized? (And Why the Answer to That Question Doesn’t Include ‘Ecosystem Services’) (Jonathan Metzger)....Pages 99-120 Constructing the Urban Citizen: How Public Knowledge Is Translated into Urban Planning Processes (Monika Kurath)....Pages 121-149 Tracing the Democratic Deficit: An Actor-Network Theory Approach to an Urban Governance Network in Madrid (Guillén Hiram Torres Sepúlveda)....Pages 151-177 Master Plans as Cosmograms: Articulating Oceanic Forces and Urban Forms After the 2010 Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile (Ignacio Farías)....Pages 179-202 Front Matter ....Pages 203-203 Re-Assembling a City: Applying SCOT to Post-Disaster Urban Change (Anique Hommels)....Pages 205-227 Performing Urbanity: An Inquiry into the Modes of Knowing the City (Julio Paulos)....Pages 229-257 Planning Ecologies: Issue Publics and the Reassembling of Urban Green Trajectories (Anders Blok)....Pages 259-282 Saving Schools: Vacancy, Ruin, and Adaptive Reuse in Detroit (James Macmillen, Trevor Pinch)....Pages 283-314 Front Matter ....Pages 315-315 Afterword: Planning and the Non-modern City (Andrew Karvonen)....Pages 317-325 Back Matter ....Pages 327-337