Planning and the Multi-local Urban Experience: The Power of Lifescapes
Planning and the Multi-local Urban Experience: The Power of Lifescapes
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This book explores the gap between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned, and governed 'reality of the state apparatus at both the local and national levels. It posits multi-locality as an emerging spatial configuration and discusses the implications of this transformation for mobility, everyday practices, and work. It also addresses the inconsistency between multi-locality and traditional statistics and planning and governance practices and discusses the need for more adequate practices to replace outdated ones.
Format: Hardback
Length: 106 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The starting point of this book is the observation that there exists a significant discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned, and governed 'reality of the state apparatus at both the local and national levels. The book posits multi-locality as an emerging spatial configuration. The author draws from a diverse range of theoretical sources, including Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of state or royal science, Nietzschean critique of idealism, Hägerström's time-geography,Hintikka's theory of modalities, Lefebvre's urban society, Castel's network society, Foucault's concept of heterotopia, and Bhaskar's and Sartre's theories of presence and absence. He also discusses the implications of Faludi's post-territorialist critique of planning and governance, as well as the failure to operationalize the concept quantitatively, basing his arguments on the lived experiences of multi-locals.
The novelty of the book lies in its comprehensive analysis of multi-locality from such a wide theoretical perspective: what is the nature and meaning of the various multiple and coexistent places for people, and how is this spatial transformation related to their mobility, everyday practices, and work? How does the presence and absence of places shape their identity and citizenship? He also addresses the inconsistency between multi-locality and traditional statistics and the planning and governance practices based on the assumption of unilocality, and discusses the implications of this incongruity.
The book will be of interest to scholars in urban studies and planning theory, as well as practitioners seeking to develop more adequate practices that replace outdated ones.
Weight: 370g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367644239
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