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Elusive promises : planning in the contemporary world

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York Berghahn books 2013Description: viii,187pISBN:
  • 9781405192767
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  • 307.1216 ABR
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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
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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

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