Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-74346-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder. Through the lens of fantasy—particularly as theorised in Lacanian psychoanalysis—contributors interrogate how planners’ desires, decisions, and subjectivities are shaped by ideological narratives that sustain dominant neoliberal structures. The book includes Michael Gunder’s influential work on ideological fantasy, alongside eleven original chapters that collectively deconstruct, traverse, and reimagine ideological constructs in planning.

The volume is organised into three thematic sections. The first critically deconstructs capitalist ideological fantasies embedded in planning education, urban imaginaries, participatory governance, and neoliberal policy discourses. The second explores how fantasies operate within environmental governance, housing activism (such as YIMBYism), flat ontologies, and community strategies, while also identifying possibilities for alternative discourses. The final section presents counter-hegemonic perspectives from non-Western contexts, including critiques of China’s Territorial Spatial Planning and Iranian philosophical traditions of truth-telling as ethical governance.

Contributors include established and emerging scholars from diverse global contexts, offering interdisciplinary insights for researchers and practitioners in planning, geography, sociology, philosophy, and political studies. This collection stands as both a scholarly tribute to Gunder’s intellectual legacy and a call for critical, transformative planning futures.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bahmanteymouri, Elham

Hillier, Jean

Mohammadzadeh, Mohsen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Jahrbücher, Jahresbände und Almanache
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Editorial Introduction: Ideological Fantasies in Planning Theories and Practices  Section 1: Deconstructing Capitalist Ideological Fantasies  2. Ideology in systems theory  3. The Exigency of Alternative Fantasies in Planning Education: A Lacanian Perspective  4. The Parable of the Scapegoat: Active Inertia in Co-creative Multi-stakeholder Arenas  5. Mapping urban ideology  6. The Levelling Up fantasy: a psychoanalytical exploration  Section 2: Traversing Capitalist Ideological Fantasies  7. Nature-Based Solutions as Ideological Fantasy  8. Reading Planning Fantasies Otherwise: What can transformative planning theory learn from the audacity of YIMBY desire?  9. Valuing a role for flat ontological perspectives and meta-ethical enquiries 10. Community Strategy, Narrative and Working through Fantasy  Section 3: Counter-Hegemonic Approaches from Non-Western Contexts  11. The Urban Domination of the Planet: A Rancièrian Critique 12. Ideological Fantasy of Totality: Impasse in the Transition to Territory Spatial Planning in China 13. Echoes of Truth: Illuminating Planning with Iranian Philosophical Insights

Über Autor(innen)

Elham Bahmanteymouri is a senior lecturer in urban planning at the University of Auckland. Her research focuses on urban critical theories, incomplete markets, housing markets, economic assessment of urban development policies, spatial inequality, and the implications of digital platforms and AI in planning and governance. She also has extensive professional experience in urban and regional planning across public and private sectors.

Jean Hillier is Professor Emerita of Sustainability and Urban Planning with the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include poststructural planning theory and methodology in times of uncertainty, more-than-human planning, and problematisation of dark cultural heritage in North-East China.

Mohsen Mohammadzadeh is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at the School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland. He holds academic qualifications in Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Design, and Civil Engineering. His research and publications focus on planning theory, alternative approaches to planning theory and practice, and the critical examination of disruptive urban technologies and their impacts on cities.