Making the Invisible Visible : A Multicultural Planning History / edited by Leonie Sandercock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandercock, Leonie, 1949- editor.

Series:

California studies in critical human geography ; Volume 2.

California Studies in Critical Human Geography Series ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--History--Cross-cultural studies.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.) : 14 figs., 1 table

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

1. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship

2. Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives on Preservation Planning

3. Regional Blocs, Regional Planning, and the Blues Epistemology in the Lower Mississippi Delta

4. Indigenous Planning

5. Remember, Stonewall Was a Riot

6. Knowing Different Cities

7. City Planning for Girls

8. Tropics of Planning Discourse

9. Subversive Histories

10. Racial Inequality and Empowerment

11. Afraid/Not

12. The Poem of Male Desires

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585054018

0585054010

9780520918573

0520918576

OCLC:

1149429038