Handbook on Planning and Power

Edited by the late Michael Gunder, formerly School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, Kristina Grange, Professor of Urban Planning and Design Theory, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Tanja Winkler, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Contents:

Introduction to the Handbook on Planning and Power 1
Kristina Grange and Tanja Winkler

PART I THEORISING POWER IN PLANNING
1 Marxian understandings of power 12
Enda Murphy and Linda Fox-Rogers
2 Lefebvre’s right to the city and a radical urban citizenship: struggles
around power in urban planning 26
Lina Olsson and Elena Besussi
3 Lukes and power: three dimensions and three criticisms 42
Raine Mäntysalo
4 Michel Foucault, power and planning 58
John Pløger
5 Deleuze, Guattari and power 74
Jean Hillier
6 Lacanian perspectives on power in planning 90
Chuan Wang
7 Filling the empty place: Laclau and Mouffe on power and hegemony 104
Nikolai Roskamm
8 The destituent power of Rancière’s radical equality 118
Camillo Boano
9 Communicative planning and the transformative potential of citizen-led
participation 134
Crystal Legacy
10 Insurgent planning and power 149
Bjørn Sletto
11 Decolonial approaches to thinking planning and power 165
Libby Porter
12 Questioning the power of normative ethics in planning 181
Katie McClymont

PART II SITUATING POWER IN PLANNING
13 The public good and the power of promises in planning 196
Andy Inch
14 ‘Tearing down and building up’: a history, theory and practice of
abolitionist housing justice in the US 211
Hilary Malson
15 Planning, informality and power 228
Mona Fawaz
16 Planning, power, and uneven development: a rent gap perspective 243
Ernesto López-Morales
17 Power in planning from a Southern perspective 258
James Duminy and Vanessa Watson
18 Queer perspectives on planning and power 273
Petra Doan and Ozlem Atalay
19 Feminist planning in the face of power: from interests and ideologies to
institutions and intersections 289
Leonora C. Angeles
20 Neoliberalism and power 305
Marlyana Azyyati Marzukhi
21 The emerging autonomous smart city and its impacts on planning and
power relations in late capitalism 321
Elham Bahmanteymouri and Mohsen Mohammadzadeh
22 Power in regulatory planning processes: searching for the third face of power 339
Yvonne Rydin
23 Power of, on and in planning 354
Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld
24 A post-postmodernist perspective on power in planning: situating
practices and power 367
Ernest R. Alexander
25 Planning, media, and power 381
Jaime Lopez and Lisa Schweitzer
26 Urban planning and the truthiness question 397
Eric Sheppard

Index