1st Edition

Actor Networks of Planning Exploring the Influence of Actor Network Theory

Edited By Yvonne Rydin, Laura Tate Copyright 2016
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction, 1. Exploring the Influence of ANT (Yvonne Rydin and Laura Tate), PART A: Using ANT: Applied Planning Analyses, 2. Constructing "Green Building": Heterogeneous Networks and the Translation of Sustainability into Planning in Israel (Shula Goulden), 3. Planned Derailment for New Urban Futures? An Actant Network Analysis of the "Great [Light] Rail Debate" in Newcastle, Australia (Kristian Ruming, Kathleen Mee and Pauline McGuirk), 4. Grants as Significant Objects in Community Engagement Networks: Kelowna, British Columbia (Silvia Vilches and Laura Tate), 5. Assembling Localism: Practices of Assemblage and Building the "Big Society" in Oxfordshire, England (Sue Brownill), 6. Two Exemplar Green Developments in Trondheim, Norway: Tales of Qualculation and Non Qualculation (Thomas Berker and Stig Larssӕther), 7. Unpacking the Swedish Urban Sustainable Imaginary: at the World Expo, Shanghai, China (Anna Hult), 8. Relationships of the Material, Cultural and Political in the Redesign of Stortorget, Malmö, Sweden (Mattias Kärrholm), 9. Assembling Energy Futures: Seawater District Heating in The Hague, Netherlands (Simon Guy, Graeme Sheriff, Chris Goodier and Ksenia Chmutina), PART B: The Way Forward: Innovative Practices and Theoretical Controversies, 10. Can Actor Network Theory Provide a Theory of Action? Planning in New York, USA (Robert Beauregard and Laura Lieto), 11. "Emergent places": Innovative Practices in Zurich, Switzerland (Joris Van Wezemael and Jan Silberberger), 12. Applications within Urban Living Labs of Flanders’ N16 corridor, Belgium (Luuk Boelens and Marleen Goethals), 13. Hydro-Urbanism in London: Using Co-evolutionary Actor Network Theory as a Prospective Methodology (Tse-Hui The), 14. Towards an Extended Symmetry: using ANT to Reflect on the Theory and Practice Gap (David Webb), 15. "A Grand Question of Design": Knowledge, Space and Difference in Early and Late Latour (Malcolm Tait and Kiera Chapman)

Biography

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.