Contents:
part PA RT 1 Institutions in Action -- chapter 1 Institutions in Action / Willem Salet -- chapter 2 Developing a ‘Sociological Institutionalist’ Approach to Analysing Institutional Change in Place Governance / Patsy Healey -- chapter 3 Political Articulation and Hegemonic Practices in the Institutionalization of the Urban Order / Enrico Gualini -- part PA RT 2 Institutional Innovation -- chapter 4 Discursive Institutionalism and Planning Ideas / Simin Davoudi -- chapter 5 Institutions in Urban Space: Land, Infrastructure, and Governance in the Production of Urban Property / André Sorensen -- chapter 6 Moving Towards a Flat Ontology of Institutional Innovation: Actor- Relational Lessons Learned from Early Water Management / Perspectives Luuk Boelens -- chapter 7 Planning and the Politics of Hope: A Critical Inquiry / Jonathan Metzger -- part PA RT 3 Pragmatism: The Dimension of Action -- chapter 8 Adapting Dierent Planning Theories for Practical Judgement / Charles Hoch -- chapter 9 From Garbage in the Streets to Organizers’ Opportunities: Navigating the Institutional Pragmatics of Democratic Inter- Subjectivity / John Forester -- chapter 10 What Can We Learn from Evolutionary Theory When Confronting the Deep Challenges of Our Times? / Luca Bertolini -- chapter 11 Learning and Governance Culture in Planning Practice: The Case of Otaniemi / Raine Mäntysalo, Kaisa Schmidt- Thomé and Simo Syrman -- part PA RT 4 On Justification -- chapter 12 Constitutions, Laws and Practices: Ethics of Planning and Ethics of Planners / Stefano Moroni -- chapter 13 How to Contextualize Legal Norms in Practices of Sustainable Development? Distinguishing Principles, Rules and Procedural Norms / Anoeska Buijze, Willem Salet and Marleen van Rijswick -- chapter 14 Interpreting Planning as Actions ‘in Plural’: From Democratic Claim to Diverse Institutional Change / Monika De Frantz -- chapter 15 Provenance, Ideology and the Public Interest in Planning / Leonie Janssen- Jansen and Greg Lloyd -- part PA RT 5 Cultural and Political Institutions in Action -- chapter 16 Contextualizing Institutional Meaning through Aesthetic Relations: A Pragmatist Understanding of Local Action / Julie- Anne Boudreau -- chapter 17 ‘London’s Vatican’: The Role of the City’s New Architectural Icons as Institutional Imaginaries / Maria Kaika -- chapter 18 The Political Nature of Symbols: Explaining Institutional Inertia and Change / Federico Savini and Sebastian Dembski -- chapter 19 The Urban Commons and Cultural Industries: An Exploration of the Institutional Embeddedness of Architectural Design in the Netherlands / Robert C. Kloosterman -- part PA RT 6 Institutions and Urban Transition -- chapter 20 Pragmatism and Institutional Actions in Planning the Metropolitan Area of Milan / Alessandro Balducci -- chapter 21 Paradoxes of the Intervention Policy in Favelas in São Paulo: How the Practice Turned Out the Policy / Suzana Pasternak and Camila D’Ottaviano -- chapter 22 Ambiguity as an Opportunity: Coping With Change in Urban Megaprojects / Stan Majoor -- chapter 23 Instituting Resilience in the Making of the Istanbul Metropolis / Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan- Kok -- chapter 24 Urban Transformation in the Northern Randstad: How Institutions Structure Planning Practice / Jochem de Vries and Wil Zonneveld -- part Reflection -- chapter 25 Weaving the Threads of Institutions and Planning in Action / Mickey Lauria.

Summary:
The Routledge Handbook of Institutions andPlanning in Actioncontains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusingon the question of how institutional innovation occursin practices of action. The contributors share expertise on institutional innovation and philosophical pragmatism. They discuss the different facets of these two conceptual frameworks and explore the alternative combinations through which they can be approached. The relevance of these conceptual lines of thought will be exemplified in exploring the contemporary practices of sustainable (climate-proof) urban transition. The aim of the handbook is to give a boost to the turn of institutional analysis in the context of action in changing cities.Both philosophical pragmatism andinstitutional innovation rest on wide international uses in social sciences and planning studies, and may be considered as complementary for many reasons. However, the combination of these different approaches is all but evident and creates a number of dilemmas. After an encompassing introductory section entitledInstitutions in Action, the handbook is furtherdivided into the following sections:Cultural and Political Institutions in ActionInstitutional innovationInstitutions and Urban TransitionOn JustificationPragmatism: The Dimension of Action.