Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2020

Life Among Urban Planners

Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City

Edited by: Jennifer Mack and Michael Herzfeld

In the series The City in the Twenty-First Century

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297164

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About this book

Life Among Urban Planners explores the practices of professional city-making in a variety of global contexts. Contributors emphasize planners' cultural values and personal assumptions and examine what their commitment to thinking about the future means for the ways in which people live in the present and preserve the past.

Author / Editor information

Jennifer Mack is Associate Professor at Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan in Sweden and author of The Construction of Equality: Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City. Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is author of numerous books, most recently, Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome.

Reviews

"Raising important questions about the complex web of relationships among technocrats, administrators, and residents in the making of urban space, Life Among Urban Planners will initiate productive conversations about cities as fluid social, cultural, and political artifacts. Urban anthropologists as well as planners and architects will find it interesting and provocative."—Emanuela Guano, Georgia State University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: Living Life Among Planners Jennifer Mack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Social and Cultural Contexts of Planning
1. Shaping Cultural Space: Reflections on the Politics and Cosmology of Urbanism Michael Herzfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Why Planners Need Anthropologists Margaret Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
3. Redesigning the Republic? Public Gardens, Participatory Design, and Citizenship in Immigrant Paris Andrew Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
PART II. Grand Plans and Their Discontents
4. Zoning as Default: The Politics of Foreign- Sponsored Urban Planning in Siem Reap, Cambodia Adèle Esposito Andujar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5. An Anatomy of Failure: Planning After the Fact in Contemporary Bogotá, Colombia Federico Pérez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. A “Zoning Tombola”: Informal Planning in Niamey, Niger Gabriella Körling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7. Breaking the Rules, Making the Ruler: Syriac Homes and the Limits of Swedish Planning Jennifer Mack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
PART III. Resituating a “Universal” Praxis
8. The Scales of Justice: Region, Rights, and Responsibility in St. Louis, Missouri Bruce O’neill and Kevin Lewis O’neill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
9. Power without the Mustache: Urban Quality as Planning Practice in Post- Industrial Barcelona Trevor Goldsmith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
10. The Games We Play: What Is Participation in Urban Planning? Insights from Warsaw Monika Sznel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
11. From the Real to the Virtual: A Swedish Solution for “Universal” Sustainable Development in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm Mark Graham and Lissa Nordin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Afterword: The Problem of the Present in Anthropology and Urban Planning James Holston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Other: 15 illus.
Keywords: Social Science; General; Urban Studies

eBook

Published: June 26, 2020
ISBN: 9780812297164