Planning in ten words or less : a Lacanian entanglement with spatial planning / Michael Gunder, Jean Hillier.
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book (loan) | Gräsvik | 307 | Available | 85001943977 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Planning as an empty signifier -- The lack of certainty -- Prescribing the good -- The haunting of risk -- Is smart growth dumb? -- Pressures of competitive globalisation -- Multiculturalism : the other always steals my enjoyment -- Sustainability of and for the market? -- Responsibility to whom? -- Beyond the mere rationality of planning.
This work attempts to demythologise 10 of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalisation, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and planning itself. It argues that these terms, and others, are mere 'empty signifiers', meaning everything and nothing.
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