Focuses on the idea of the promise as a way to understand planning through time.
Ethnographic accounts from highly-regarded anthropologists on planning.
Comparative study of planning.
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List of figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Chapter 1. Elusive promises: Planning in the Contemporary World An Introduction
Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys
Chapter 2. Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State
Halvard Vike
Chapter 3. Hypercomplexity in collective planning: a case of railway design
Åsa Boholm
Chapter 4. The Invaded City: Structuring an Urban Landscape on the Margins of the Possible (Peru's Southern Highlands)
Sarah Lund
Chapter 5. Tenure Reformed? State, society and the landless in South Africa
Deborah James
Chapter 6. Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neoliberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
John Gledhill
Chapter 7. Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur
Richard Baxstrom
Chapter 8. Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Promises and Personal Promises in the Post-Liberalisation Governance of the Hooghly
Laura Bear
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