Shadows of Power: An Allegory of Prudence in Land-Use Planning

by Hillier; Jean

• ISBN13: 9780415256315
• ISBN10: 0415256313
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-11-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book examines issues of decision-making, communication and power in the planning process. The author explores the politics and power-plays which planning practitioners face and engage in, using real examples from planning practice. The book explores planning but in the context of practice, i.e. how it is actually encountered in the worlds of planning officers and elected representatives. It will shed light on the subtleties of power so that student and practitioners will better understand the circumstances in which they will find themselves and will able to act more effectively in what is in reality a messy, highly-politicized, planning decision-making process.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xiv
Figures	xvii
Tables	xviii
PART 1: INTO THE SHADOWS	1	(22)
Shadows of power: an allegory of prudence in land-use planning	3	(20)
PART 2: SHADOW TALK: CONVERSATIONS WITH HABERMAS AND FOUCAULT	23	(56)
A conversation with Jurgen Habermas	25	(22)
Discussing Michel Foucault	47	(16)
Putting it all together: developing the foundations of a new theoretical framework	63	(16)
PART 3: CHIAROSCURO PRACTICE: THE SHADES AND LIGHTS OF PLANNING	79	(86)
Shadow magics	81	(18)
Tenebrism in the North East Corridor	99	(34)
Sfumato in the forests	133	(32)
PART 4: SHADOW NEGOTIATIONS	165	(54)
The shadow of experience: the habitus	167	(10)
Negotiating the gap	177	(16)
Planners as missionaries or chameleons?	193	(26)
PART 5: OUT FROM THE SHADOWS	219	(54)
Associating with shadows	221	(30)
On slippery ice: beyond consensus	251	(22)
PART 6: SHADOW PLAY	273	(22)
`Coming events cast their shadows before'	275	(20)
Bibliography	295	(38)
End Notes	333	(8)
Index	341