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Planning and Knowledge: How New Forms of Technocracy Are Shaping Contemporary Cities

Mike Raco and Federico Savini

Abstract

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, the book critically reflects 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 h ... More

Keywords: conflict, cooperation, urban change, planning, governance, sustainable urban development, sustainable development

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2019 Print ISBN-13: 9781447345244
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2020 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447345244.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Mike Raco, editor
University College London

Federico Savini, editor
University of Amsterdam

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Part I Conceptual framings of technocracy

1 The rise of a new urban technocracy

Federico Savini and Mike Raco

2 Planning, knowledge and technocracy in historical perspective

Michael Hebbert

Part II Public planning and bureaucracies in contemporary urban development politics

3 Dealing with tensions: the expertise of boundary spanners in facilitating community initiatives

Ward Rauws and Martine de Jong

4 Plurality of expert knowledge: public planners’ experience with urban contractualism in Amsterdam

Tuna Taşan-Kok and Martijn van den Hurk

5 Local government in the face of crisis: changing public management of urban projects in Amsterdam

Thijs Koolmees and Stan Majoor

6 Captured by bureaucracy: street-level professionals mediating past, present and future knowledge

Nanke Verloo

Part III Corporate knowledge and the land and property development sector

7 Anticipatory knowledge: how development consultants see the future

Rachel Weber

8 Towards an ‘information technocracy’: discourses of London’s post-referendum real estate markets

Nicola Livingstone

9 Finance as technocratic agent in urban development

Sabine Dörry

10 Planning professionalism in the face of technocracy: ethics, values and practices

Susannah Gunn

Part IV Private consultants and the delivery of public policy

11 Professional lobbying in urban planning: depoliticisation or REpoliticisation?

Aino Hirvola and Raine Mäntysalo

12 Advocates, advisors and scrutineers: the technocracies of private sector planning in England

Gavin Parker, Emma Street and Matthew Wargent

13 Localism and the reconfiguration of planning’s publics in the landscapes of technocracy

Sue Brownill

14 The politics of new urban professions: the case of urban development engineers

Jonathan Metzger and Sherif Zakhour

Part V New constellations of actors and the management and governance of contemporary cities

15 Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urban technocrats

Rob Kitchin, Claudio Coletta, Leighton Evans, Liam Heaphy and Darach Mac Donncha

16 Planning by numbers: affordable housing and viability in England1

Antonia Layard

17 Transnational design and local implications for planning: project flights and landings1

Davide Ponzini

18 Researching the best-practice: academic knowledge production, planning and the post-politicisation of environmental politics

Samuel Mössner and Catarina Gomes de Matos

19 Conclusions: the technocratic logics of contemporary planning

Federico Savini and Mike Raco

End Matter

References

Index