Introduction 1. Planning and the politics of resistance (Robert A. Beauregard) 2. Things, rules and politics: Blurring the boundaries between formality and informality (Laura Lieto) 3. The pedestrianization of the Naples’ seafront: Assemblage thinking as a planning tool (Gilda Berruti) 4. Translation: William Vickrey and the remaking of transportation knowledge infrastructure (John West) 5. Re-assembling world and waste: Informal practices of waste picking in Naples (Laura Basco) 6. ‘Recombinant’ hybrid ecologies and landscapes: Piana Campana, South Italy (Enrico Formato) 7. Minutiae: Meeting minutes as actors in participatory planning processes (Linus Vanhellemont & Serena Vicari Haddock) 8. Mobilizing policy: Microfinance’s journey from Bangladesh to Washington DC (Linying He) 9. Normative planning research in a material world? Trading zones and assemblages (Raine Mäntysalo, Ilona Akkila & Alessandro Balducci) 10. Assemblage, assembly and difference (Attilio Belli) Final remarks
Biography
Laura Lieto is a Professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Architecture at the 'Federico II' University, Italy.
Robert A. Beauregard is a Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, USA.
