Stretching Beyond the Horizon

Professor Jean Hillier is Associate Dean, Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University, Australia

Contents: Preface: the dilemma of a middle or the middle of a dilemma; Part 1: 'A Thickness on Which Shadows Play': Shadows of the future; Transdisciplinary shadows; 'Following the witch's flight': artfully introducing Deleuzoguattarian ideas; Part 2 Resonances, Interferences, Encounters and Connections: Sweeping the dust of fixities: reconceptualizing time and space in planning and governance; Land, rights, laws: legalized obliteration of spatial meanings, knowledges and beliefs; Woven, knotted and matted: entangled complex systems and non-linear dynamics of space-time;On justice between absence and presence: the 'ghost ships' of Graythorp. Part 3 Straddling the Abyss: Coming from the outside of thought: problematising representation as a step towards a postrepresentational theory of spatial planning and governance; Planning and governance as speculative experimentation: a postrepresentational theory; Multiplanar planning: crossing the threshold into practice; Turbulence within the flow; References; Index.