Making the Invisible Visible A Multicultural Planning History

Name: Making the Invisible Visible A Multicultural Planning History
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ISBN: 9780520207356

ISBN-10: 0520207351

ISBN-13: 9780520207356

Edition: 1998

Authors: Leonie Sandercock

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The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning. Through a variety of critical lenses--feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial--the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions.…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/8/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: Framing Insurgent Historiographies for Planning




Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship




Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives on Preservation Planning




Regional Blocs, Regional Planning, and the Blues Epistemology in the Lower Mississippi Delta




Indigenous Planning: Clans, Intertribal Confederations, and the History of the All Indian Pueblo Council




Remember, Stonewall Was a Riot: Understanding Gay and Lesbian Experience in the City




Knowing Different Cities: Reflections on Recent European Writings on Cities and Planning History




City Planning for Girls: Exploring the Ambiguous Nature of Women's Planning History




Tropics of Planning Discourse: Stalking the "Constructive Imaginary" of Selected Urban Planning Histories




Subversive Histories: Texts from South Africa




Racial Inequality and Empowerment: Necessary Theoretical Constructs for Understanding U.S. Planning History




Afraid/Not: Psychoanalytic Directions for an Insurgent Planning Historiography




The Poem of Male Desires: Female Bodies, Modernity, and "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century"



Contributors


Index