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OverviewThe history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning. Through a variety of critical lenses-feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial-the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. Some contributors uncover indigenous planning traditions that have been erased from the record: African American and Native American traditions, for example. Other contributors explore new themes: themes of gendered spaces and racist practices, of planning as an ordering tool, a kind of spatial police, of ""bodies, cities, and social order"" (influenced by Foucault, Lefebvre, and others), and of resistance. This scrutiny of the class, race, gender, ethnic, or ideological biases of ideas and practices inherent in the notion of planning as a modernist social technology clearly points to the inadequacy of modernist planning histories. Making the Invisible Visible redefines planning as the regulation of the physicality, sociality, and spatiality of the city. Its histories provide the foundation of a new, alternative planning paradigm for the multicultural cities of the future. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leonie SandercockPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 2 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780520207356ISBN 10: 0520207351 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 08 February 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsCONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE Introduction: Framing Insurgent Historiographies for Planning Leonie Sandercock PART I* HISTORICAL PRACTICES 1. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship James Holston 2. Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives on Preservation Planning Gail Lee Dubrow 3. Regional Blocs, Regional Planning, and the Blues Epistemology in the Lower Mississippi Delta Clyde Woods 4. Indigenous Planning: Clans, Intertribal Confederations, and the History of the All Indian Pueblo Council Theodore S. Jojola 5. Remember, Stonewall Was a Riot: Understanding Gay and Lesbian Experience in the City Moira Rachel Kn111ey PART II* TEXTUAL AND THEORETICAL PRACTICES 6. Knowing Different Cities: Reflections on Recent European Writings on Cities and Planning History Iain Borden, Jane Rendell, and Helen Thomas 7. City Planning for Girls: Exploring the Ambiguous Nature of Women's Planning History Susan Marie Wirka 8. Tropics of Planning Discourse: Stalking the Constructive Imaginary of Selected Urban Planning Histories Olivier Kramsch 9. Subversive Histories: Texts from South Africa Robert A. Beauregard 10. Racial Inequality and Empowerment: Necessary Theoretical Constructs for Understanding U.S. Planning History June Manning Thomas 11. Afraid/Not: Psychoanalytic Directions for an Insurgent Planning Historiography Dora Epstein 12. The Poem of Male Desires: Female Bodies, Modernity, and Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century Barbara Hooper CONTRIBUTORS INDEXReviewsMore than anything else this book represents a clear call to all those involved in the writing (and teaching) of planning history of the need to remember that processes of exclusion are rarely documented in mainstream planning history. . . . The work deserves a wide audience, notwithstanding its largely American provenance. * Town Planning Review * The book deserves reading by a select audience interested in planning history and theory. * Public Historian * The book deserves reading by a select audience interested in planning history and theory. * Public Historian * More than anything else this book represents a clear call to all those involved in the writing (and teaching) of planning history of the need to remember that processes of exclusion are rarely documented in mainstream planning history. . . . The work deserves a wide audience, notwithstanding its largely American provenance. * Town Planning Review * Author InformationLeonie Sandercock is Professor of Human Settlements and Head of the Department of Landscape, Environment, and Planning at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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