Simone Abram

Culture and Planning (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In planning debates, culture is often treated as a fixed element, either as a quasi-economic resource or as a category of behaviour. Yet a wealth of research and analysis is available that moves the spotlight from the question of what culture is, towards understanding what we are doing when we talk about culture. This book brings that focus to planning research, examining culture as a socio-historical concept, and introducing a line of scholarship, both established and recent, to show what 'culture' does and why. Illustrated by case studies from planning contexts, it addresses the materialisation of abstract concepts, performance and embodiment, and social categorisation. In doing so, it shows how a deeper understanding of culture can offer new insights into the challenges that planners and planning theorists face. While Culture and Planning is aimed primarily at planning theorists, professionals and students, it has equal relevance for students of human geography or sociology and is accessible to a wider readership. In effect, it opens up the field of planning to a new realm of research, enabling readers to think beyond the bounds of what they know about planning, and to think about what they may, or may not, know about culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317156000
• Artikelnr.: 45096568

Autorenporträt

Simone Abram is Reader in Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Idea of Culture in Planning
Chapter 2 The Magic of Planning
Chapter 3 The Body in Planning
Chapter 4 Owning: House Society and Policy
Chapter 5 Citizens and the Public
Chapter 6 The Public and Time
Chapter 7 Bringing it Together ¿ Renewing Planning