Actor Networks of Planning: Exploring the influence of Actor Network Theory

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Half Title
Series information
Endorsement Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	1 Exploring the influence of ANT
		Introduction
		The emergence of Actor Network Theory
		Key features of ANT
		ANT and planning studies
		Appreciation of the nuanced ways in which plan creation and implementation relationships are developed
		Identification of the complex and context-specific nature of power dynamics
		Greater understanding of the implications of progressive agendas
		Previewing the insights from our explorations in ANT
		Lessons for planning practice
		Lessons for planning scholarship
		References
Part I Using ANT: applied planning analyses
	2 Constructing ‘green building’: heterogeneous networks and the translation of sustainability into planning in Israel
		Introduction: green building, planning and the standardization of sustainable design
		Green building through the lens of ANT
		Green building and planning in Israel: an ANT perspective
			Background
			Network, enrolments, translations: multiple rationales for green building
			From consensus to black box: actor network invisibility
			Material enrolment: defining green building
			Mandatory adoption of green building: a synthesis
		Discussion
		Notes
		References
	3 Planned derailment for new urban futures? An actant network analysis of the ‘great [light] rail debate’ in Newcastle, Australia
		Introduction
		Actor Network Theory and planning
		Conflicting problematizions: the ‘great [light] rail debate’
		A new planning translation: 2014 Newcastle Urban Regeneration Strategy (Update)
			Translation point I: models of urban form and data
			Translation point II: alternative urban mobilities
			Translation point III: imagery and maps
		Conclusion: fragile planning actant networks
		Notes
		References
	4 Grants as significant objects in community engagement networks: kelowna, British Columbia
		Introduction
		Engagement and Actor Network Theory (ANT)
		A case study: CB25 of Kelowna
		Enrolment: promoting wellness for youth emerging from the child protection system
		Discussion: was CB25 successful at engagement?
		The ANT lens reveals engagement
		Notes
		References
	5 Assembling localism: practices of assemblage and building the ‘Big Society’ in Oxfordshire, England
		Introduction
		Planning, localism and practices of assemblage
		From the abstract to the concrete: assembling the Big Society in Oxfordshire
			‘If the Big Society can’t work in Oxfordshire, it won’t work anywhere’
			Framing the arena for intervention: authorizing knowledge
			Forging alliances: remaking publics and places
			Managing failure: enter the Big Society Fund
			Reassembling: a victory or a stay of execution?
		Conclusions: using assemblage to think through localism
		Note
		References
	6 Two exemplar green developments in Norway: tales of qualculation and non-qualculation
		Introduction
		Planning as a creation of spaces of qualculation and non-qualculation
		Two cases of contemporary sustainable planning in Norway
		Powerhouse Brattørkaia
		The active houses of Hurdal
		Discussion and conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	7 Unpacking the Swedish urban sustainable imaginary: at the World Expo, Shanghai, China
		The Swedish urban sustainable imaginary
		ANT as a material-semiotic toolkit in planning research
		ANT and space
		ANT unpacking the construction of facts
		ANT as a material-semiotic toolkit
		The Swedish pavilion at the World Expo as a node in a wider network
		Unpacking the black-boxing of SymbioCity
		Concluding remarks
		Notes
		References
	8 The king and the square: relationships of the material, cultural and political in the redesign of Stortorget, Malmö, Sweden
		Introduction
		Proposing a new image for Stortorget
		The king
		The square for cultural events
		Planning with mutable mobiles?
		References
	9 Assembling energy futures: seawater district heating in The Hague, the Netherlands
		Introduction
		The case study: seawater district heating in the Netherlands
		The project as an assemblage
		Mapping the elements of the system
		Tracing territories of the system
		Exploring the ecologies of the system
		The sea
		The rhythms of the system
		Conclusions: the seamed web?
		Note
		References
Part II The way forward: innovative practices and theoretical controversies
	10 Does Actor Network Theory help planners to think about change?
		Introduction
		Climate change planning in New York City
		Planned change
		Actor network change
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	11 ‘Emergent places’: innovative practices in Zurich, Switzerland
		Introduction
		ANT and complexity in/for planning
		The quest for urban quality: a residential area in the airport region of Zurich
		Analysis of the case presented
		Combining ANT and assemblage theory
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	12 Planning tactics of undefined becoming: applications within Urban Living Labs of Flanders’ N16 corridor, Belgium
		Introduction: ontological deliberations
		Practicalities
		The N16 Lab
		Discussion
		References
	13 Hydro-urbanism in London: using co-evolutionary Actor Network Theory as a prospective methodology
		Introduction
		Co-evolutionary Actor Network Theory
		Hydro-urban co-evolutionary ANT methods for London
		Hydro-urbanism in London
		Conclusion
		References
	14 Towards an extended symmetry: using ANT to reflect on the theory and practice gap
		Introduction
		Symmetry as a means of looking outwards/forwards and inwards/backwards
		Tools for working inwards/backwards
		Thinking through the government of academic accounts
		Extending a relational approach to disciplinary self-government
		Subjectivities of neoliberalized planning
		Concluding discussion
		References
	15 ‘A grand question of design’: knowledge, space and difference in early and late Latour
		The relationship of mind and world in early and later Latour
		Spatializing difference: planning’s place within ANT
		References
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