Actor Networks of Planning

Exploring the Influence of Actor Network Theory
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-88640-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Planning is centrally focused on places which are significant to people, including both the built and natural environments. In making changes to these places, planning outcomes inevitably benefit some and disadvantage others. It is perhaps surprising that Actor Network Theory (ANT) has only recently been considered as an appropriate lens through which to understand planning practice. This book brings together an international range of contributors to explore such potential of ANT in more detail.

While it can be thought of as a subset of complexity theory, given its appreciation for non-linear processes and responses, ANT has its roots in the sociology of scientific and technology studies. ANT now comprises a rich set of concepts that can be applied in research, theoretical and empirical. It is a relational approach that posits a radical symmetry between social and material actors (or actants). It suggests the importance of dynamic processes by which networks of relationships become formed, shift and have effect.

And while not inherently normative, ANT has the potential to strengthen other more normative domains of planning theory through its unique analytical lens. However, this requires theoretical and empirical work and the papers in this volume undertake such work. This is the first volume to provide a full consideration of how ANT can contribute to planning studies, and suggests a research agenda for conceptual development and empirical application of the theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rydin, Yvonne

Tate, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 – The contribution of ANT to planning studies Yvonne Rydin and Laura Tate

Ch. 2 Robert Beauregard and Laura Lieto "Change and Stability in Actor-Network Theory"

Ch. 3 David Webb "From social engineering to environmental determinism: negotiating non-human agency in the management of place futures"

Ch. 4 Joris van Wezemael and Jan Silberberger "Emergent Places"

Ch. 5 Malcolm Tait and Kiera Chapman " ‘We do not, in fact, apprehend walls': the problem of place in actor-network theory"

Ch. 6 Luuk Boelens "Planning of undefined becoming; review of more than 10 years of actor relational practices"

Part 2 – Applications of ANT in planning studies

Ch. 7 Matthias Kärrholm "Planning for a Square of Events - The Case of Stortorget, Malmö"

Ch. 8 Sue Brownill "Assembling Localism in England"

Ch. 9 Silvia Vilches and Laura Tate "Grants and partnerships as significant objects in community development networks: cases from British Columbia"

Ch. 10 Anna Hult (to be confirmed and abstract revised; if contributor does not commit, an alternative author writing on China or Asia will be sought)

Ch. 11 Shula Goulden "Green building as an actor-network and its influence on planning: a case study"

Ch. 12 Stig Larssaether and Thomas Berker "Between there and now - flows of agency in the funding of energy efficient buildings in Norway and Germany"

Ch. 13 Simon Guy, Yvonne Rydin and Graeme Sherriff "Assembling Urban Energy: Sociotechnical perspectives on a Seawater District Heating project"

Ch. 14 Tse-Hui Teh "Hydro-Urbanism: an ANT Coevolution Approach to Reconfiguring the Urban Water-Cycle in London"

Ch. 15 Kristian Ruming, Pauline McGuirk and Kathleen Mee "The end of the line: an ANT/Assemblage analysis of the removal of the heavy rail in inner Newcastle, Australia"

Ch. 16 Yvonne Rydin and Laura Tate Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Yvonne Rydin, Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.

Laura Tate, PhD, Principal of Laura Tate Associates, a City and Social Planning and Evaluation Consulting firm based in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.