The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning and Culture

by Greg Young, Deborah Stevenson

Overview

It has become increasingly evident that effective planning for sustainable communities, environments and economies pivots on the ability of planners to see the possibilities for culture in comprehensive social, historical and environmental terms and to more fully engage with the cultural practices, processes and theorisation that comprise a social formation. More broadly, an approach to planning theory and practice that is itself formed through a close engagement with culture is required.

This Research Companion brings together leading experts from around the world to map the contours of the relationship between planning and culture and to present these inextricably linked concepts and issues together in one place. By examining significant trends in varying national and international contexts, the contributors scrutinise the theories and practices of both planning and culture and explore not only their interface, but significant divergences and tensions.

In doing so, this collection provides the first comprehensive overview and analysis of planning and culture, interdisciplinary and international in scope. It is comprised of six parts organised around the themes of global and historical contexts, key dimensions of planning and cultural theory and practice, and cultural and planning dynamics. Each section includes a final chapter that provides a case study lens which pulls the themes of the section together with reference to a significant planning issue or initiative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409471615
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	09/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	21 MB
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About the Author

Greg Young, University of Sydney, Australia and Deborah Stevenson, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Greg Young, Deborah Stevenson, Sophie Watson, Toby Miller, Peter Newman, Andy Thornley, Clara Greed, James A. Throgmorton, Vanessa Watson, Glen Searle, Justin O’Connor, G.J. Ashworth, Masayuki Sasaki, Graeme Evans, Edgar Pieterse, Kim Dovey, Tüzin Baycan, Luigi Fusco Girard, Setha Low, Ronan Paddison, Torill Nyseth, John Montgomery, Nancy Duxbury, M. Sharon Jeannotte, Franco Bianchini, Jean Hillier.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: culture and planning in a grain of sand, Greg Young; Part 1 Global Contexts: Preface to Part 1, Deborah Stevenson; Global futures: reflections on culture, diversity and planning for the 21st century, Sophie Watson; A cultural history of modern urban planning, Stephen V. Ward; Culture to creativity to environment - and back again, Toby Miller; Case study window - global cities: governance cultures and urban policy in New York, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing, Peter Newman and Andy Thornley. Part 2 Planning and Its Dimensions: Preface to Part 2, Greg Young; A feminist perspective on planning cultures: tacit gendered assumptions in a taciturn profession, Clara Greed; What can planning theory be now? Storytelling and community identity in a tea party moment, James A. Throgmorton; Planning theory and practice in a global context, Vanessa Watson; Case study window - discourse, doctrine and habitus: redevelopment contestation on Sydney’s harbour-edge, Glen Searle. Part 3 Culture and Its Dimensions: Preface to Part 3, Deborah Stevenson; Culture, planning, citizenship, Deborah Stevenson; The cultural and creative industries, Justin O’Connor; Heritage in planning: using pasts in shaping futures, G.J. Ashworth; Case study window - cultural cluster, capital and cityscape: the cultural economy of Japanese creative cities, Masayuki Sasaki. Part 4 Planning Practices: Preface to Part 4, Greg Young; Cultural planning and sustainable development, Graeme Evans; Development, planning and sustainability, Edgar Pieterse; Planning and place identity, Kim Dovey; Case study window - culture in international sustainability practices and perspectives: the experience of the ‘slow city movement - Cittaslow’, Tüzin Baycan and Luigi Fusco Girard. Part 5 Cultural Practices: Preface to Part 5, Deborah Stevenson; Public space and diversity: distributive, procedural and interactional justice for parks, Setha Low; Public spaces: on their production and consumption, Ronan Paddison; The reinvention of place: complexities and diversities, Torill Nyseth; Case study window - cultural quarters and urban regeneration, John Montgomery. Part 6 Cultural and Planning Dynamics: Preface to Part 6, Greg Young; Global cultural governance policy, Nancy Duxbury and M. Sharon Jeannotte; ‘Cultural planning’ and its interpretations, Franco Bianchini; Stealing the fire of life: a cultural paradigm for planning and governance, Greg Young; Case study window - global futures: new opportunities for creative cultural transformation, Jean Hillier. Afterword: planning with culture, Deborah Stevenson; Index.