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This book uses a broad international perspective to examine the different landscapes of knowledge driving contemporary urban change, as historically-established systems of regulation and control are being subject to unprecedented pressures from multiple directions. Its authors reflect on the shift in power relations between expert and local cultures in planning processes, examining its disruptive effect on the traditional separation between public, private, and voluntary sectors.

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Author:   Mike Raco ,  Federico Savini ,  Rob Kitchin (Maynooth University) ,  Sue Brownill (School of Planning, Oxford Planning Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University)
Publisher:   Policy Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447345268

ISBN 10:   1447345266
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I Conceptual Framings of Technocracy Chapter 1: The Rise of a New Urban Technocracy, Federico Savini and Mike Raco Chapter 2: Planning, Knowledge and Technocracy in Historical Perspective, Michael Hebbert Part II Public Planning and Bureaucracies in Contemporary Urban Development Politics Chapter 3: Dealing with tensions: the expertise of boundary spanners in facilitating community initiatives, Ward Rauws and Martine de Jong Chapter 4: Are public planners becoming project contractors? Pluralism of expert knowledge in Amsterdam’s experience with urban contractualism, Tuna Tasan-Kok & Martijn van den Hurk Chapter 5: Local government in the face of crisis - Changing public management of urban projects in Amsterdam, Thijs Koolmees and Stan Majoor Chapter 6: Captured by bureaucracy. Street-level professionals mediating past, present, and future knowledge, Nanke Verloo Part III Corporate Knowledge and the Land and Property Development Sector Chapter 7: Anticipatory Knowledge: How Development Consultants See the Future, Rachel Weber Chapter 8: Towards an `information technocracy’: Discourses of London’s post-referendum real estate markets, Nicola Livingstone Chapter 9: Finance as technocratic agent in urban development, Sabine Dörry Chapter 10: Planning Professionalism in the Face of Technocracy: Ethics, values, and practices, Susannah Gunn Part IV Private Consultants and the Delivery of Public Policy Chapter 11: Professional lobbying in urban planning – Depoliticization or REpoliticization?, Aino Hirvola & Raine Mäntysalo Chapter 12: Advocates, Advisors and Scrutineers: the technocracies of private sector planning in England, Gavin Parker, Emma Street and Matthew Wargent Chapter 13: Localism and the Reconfiguration of Planning’s Publics in the Landscapes of Technocracy, Sue Brownill Chapter 14: The politics of new urban professions: the case of urban development engineers, Jonathan Metzger & Sherif Zakhour Part V New Constellations of Actors and the Management and Governance of Contemporary Cities. Chapter 15: Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urban technocrats, Rob Kitchin, Claudio Coletta, Leighton Evans, Liam Heaphy and Darach Mac Donncha Chapter 16: Planning by Numbers: Affordable Housing and Viability in England, Antonya Layard Chapter 17: Transnational design and local implications for planning: Project flights and landings, Davide Ponzini, Chapter 18: Researching the best-practice: Academic knowledge production, planning and the post-politicization of environmental politics, Samuel Mössner and Catarina Gomes de Matos Chapter 19: Conclusions - The Technocratic logics of contemporary planning, Federico Savini & Mike Raco

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Mike Raco is professor of Urban Governance and Development in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Federrico Savini is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies.

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