Elusive promises : planning in the contemporary world
Abram, Simone Ed.
Elusive promises : planning in the contemporary world - New York Berghahn books 2013 - viii,187p.
CONTENTS
List of figures
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on contributors
Chapter 1. Elusive promises: Planning in the Contemporary World An Introduction 1
Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys
Chapter 2. Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State 35
Halvard Vike
Chapter 3. Hypercomplexity in collective planning: a case of railway design 57
Åsa Boholm
Chapter 4. The Invaded City: Structuring an Urban Landscape on the Margins of the Possible (Peru’s Southern Highlands) 77
Sarah Lund
Chapter 5. Tenure Reformed? State, society and the landless in South Africa 97
Deborah James
Chapter 6. Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neoliberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 117
John Gledhill
Chapter 7. Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur 137
Richard Baxstrom
Chapter 8. Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Promises and Personal Promises in the Post-Liberalisation Governance of the Hooghly 155
Laura Bear
Bibliography 179
Index 182
9781405192767
307.1216 / ABR
Elusive promises : planning in the contemporary world - New York Berghahn books 2013 - viii,187p.
CONTENTS
List of figures
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on contributors
Chapter 1. Elusive promises: Planning in the Contemporary World An Introduction 1
Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys
Chapter 2. Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State 35
Halvard Vike
Chapter 3. Hypercomplexity in collective planning: a case of railway design 57
Åsa Boholm
Chapter 4. The Invaded City: Structuring an Urban Landscape on the Margins of the Possible (Peru’s Southern Highlands) 77
Sarah Lund
Chapter 5. Tenure Reformed? State, society and the landless in South Africa 97
Deborah James
Chapter 6. Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neoliberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 117
John Gledhill
Chapter 7. Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur 137
Richard Baxstrom
Chapter 8. Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Promises and Personal Promises in the Post-Liberalisation Governance of the Hooghly 155
Laura Bear
Bibliography 179
Index 182
9781405192767
307.1216 / ABR