Planning in ten words or less : a Lacanian entanglement with spatial planning / Michael Gunder, Jean Hillier.

By:

Gunder, M. (Michael)

Contributor(s):

Hillier, Jean

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009Description: vii, 243 p. ill. 25 cmISBN:

9780754674573
0754674576

Subject(s): DDC classification:

307.1216 22
307.1/216 22
307.1201 22

LOC classification:

HT166

Other classification:

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book (loan)	Campus Karlskrona	307	Available		85001943977

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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