Critical Planning and Design: Roots, Pathways, and Frames

Preface
Acknowledgements
Book Description
Contents
Editor and Contributors
1 Critical Planning and Design: Walking Through Roots and Dissenting Imaginations
	1.1 Walking Through Roots, Pathways, and Frames
	1.2 A Plural Understanding of “Critical”
	1.3 Alternative Planning and Design Histories: Radical and Insurgent
	1.4 The Book
	References
Part I Roots
2 Giancarlo Paba’s Trilogy of Luoghi comuni (Common Places, 1998), Movimenti urbani (Urban Movements, 2003), Corpi urbani (Urban Bodies, 2010): Influential Italian “Critical Planning” Thinking
	2.1 Premises
	2.2 Explorations of Urban Critical Thinking and Action from the Borderlands
	2.3 “Unsettling”: A Usable Past for an Alternative (Radical and Critical) History of Planning
		2.3.1 “Usable Past”
		2.3.2 The Philosophy of Regional Planning (Benton MacKaye)
		2.3.3 The Biosocial Program (Patrick Geddes)
	2.4 “Interaction”: A Agency of Bodies, Animals, Plants, and Other Terrestrial Elements
		2.4.1 Human and Non-human Bodies
		2.4.2 Interactive Planning and Design
		2.4.3 Radical Participation
	2.5 “Tenacious Cities”: The Materiality of Territories, Obduracy, the Margin of Energy, Walking Through, and the Militant University
		2.5.1 Obduracy (the Materiality of the Territory)
		2.5.2 Tenacious Cities
		2.5.3 The “Margin of Energy” and “Walking Through”
		2.5.4 The Militant University
	2.6 Paba’s Legacy and Contribution to Critical Planning
	2.7 Unveiling a Radical Planner’s Biography
	References
3 Ildefonso Cerdà, Teoría General de la Urbanización, 1867: An Innovative Approach
	3.1 Diffusion of Cerdà’s Works
	3.2 The Theory of Cities Construction
	3.3 La Teoría de la Viabilidad Urbana y Reforma de la de Madrid
	3.4 The General Theory of Urbanization
		3.4.1 Structure and Articulation of the First Volume
		3.4.2 Structure and Articulation of the Second Volume
		3.4.3 New Words
	3.5 A Synthesis’ Attempt
	3.6 Soria y Puig and Choay on Cerdà
	References
4 Concrete Community and Territorial Principle in Adriano Olivetti’s Thought
	References
5 All the Layers of an Ecological Commitment at the Frontier: Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Biographical Premises
	5.3 How the Book Was Born
	5.4 City and Country
	5.5 The Book Geo-Historic Setting
	5.6 A Multiple Track Narrative
	5.7 Landscape and Planning
	5.8 Celebrations
	References
6 L’Architecture de survie (1978) is Back Talking to EU Cities in Crisis. The Provocative Message by Yona Friedman as a Key for the Present and Future Urban Agenda
	6.1 Starting from a Fact: Architecture of Survival is a Best Seller
	6.2 Ambition: For the Next World
	6.3 To the Ordinary Man
	6.4 Communication is Part of the Architecture and Town Planning Project
	6.5 Becoming Aware/Knowledgeable
	6.6 Understanding Nature
	6.7 Habit and Anti-habit
	6.8 Survival
Part II Planning Pathways
7 John Friedmann, the Good Society (1979): Panning Pathways for a Just Society
	7.1 A Life of Inquiry
	7.2 The Good Society
	7.3 What Are the Core Aspects of the Good Society?
	7.4 Why Does the Book Still Matter?
	References
8 David Harvey’s Urbanization of Capital (1985): why it helped me so much
	References
9 A Place in the World? Places, Cultures and Globalization, 1995. Doreen Massey’s Lessons: Is the World Really Shrinking or Is the Geography of the World Teaching Us Openness and Diversity?
	References
10 Patsy Healey and Collaborative Planning (2005): Re-thinking Democracy in the ‘Reasoning in Public’ Arena
	10.1 A Normative Ideal: (Questions of) Applicability and Transferability
	10.2 Cordelia and King Lear: The Disownment of Citizenship in Insincere (Planning) Discourses
	10.3 Re-thinking Democracy
	References
11 Utopian Tension: Sandercock’s Inspiring Journey “Towards Cosmopolis” (1998)
	11.1 Strange Multiplicity
	11.2 Looking Back and Moving Forward
	References
12 Zwischenstadt | Inbetween City. Thomas Sieverts, Cities Without Cities: An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt, 2004
	12.1 Infrastructure
	12.2 Nature
	12.3 Everyday Suburbanism in the Habitat
	12.4 Design and Planning
	12.5 Conclusion
	References
Part III Conceptual Frames
13 “Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society”, 1990. The Radical Contribution of Charles E. Lindblom’s Self-Guiding Society and Probing Volition
	13.1 Part One of Inquiry and Change: “Probing Volitions”
	13.2 Part Two: “Impaired Inquiry”
	13.3 Part Three: “Towards Prescription”
	References
14 Rediscussing Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia, 1974: Property Titles to Land and Issues of Distributive Justice
	14.1 Introduction
	14.2 The Entitlement Theory of Justice: Legitimate Holdings, Minimal State and No Redistribution
		14.2.1 Three Principles: Acquisition, Transfer, Rectification
		14.2.2 Four Dichotomies: Historical Principles Versus Non-historical, Patterned Versus Non-patterned, Organic Versus Non-organic, Aggregative Versus Non-aggregative
	14.3 Discussion: A Weak Point, an Unexpected Point, a Strong Point
		14.3.1 Issues Related to Acquisition
		14.3.2 Issues Related to Rectification
		14.3.3 Issues Related to Transfer
	References
15 Blade Runner or: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K Dick’s Science Fiction and Maschinenmenschen in Metropolis
	15.1 Shakespeare of sci-fi
	15.2 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
	15.3 Blade Runner
	15.4 Futuring the City
	15.5 Maschinenmenschen in Metropolis?
	15.6 Pursuit of Unknowable Novelty
	References
16 Max Weber, Die Stadt (1922), English Edition, Max Weber, The City, Edited and Translated by Don Martindale and Gertrude Neuwirth, the Free Press, 1958
	16.1 Weber’s Model of City
	16.2 Legacies and Interpretations of Weber’s Model and Its Actuality
	References
17 Antonio Gramsci and the Prison Notebooks
	17.1 Cities and Urbanization
	17.2 The Country and Rural Questions
	17.3 Urbanity, Rurality, Hegemony
	17.4 Conclusion
	References
18 Le droit à la ville, 1968: Reading Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in Planning Perspective
	18.1 A Striking Outdatedness
		18.1.1 About the City and its Domain
		18.1.2 Structure and Form
		18.1.3 The City as oeuvre and the Urban Phenomenon in History
	18.2 The Urban
	18.3 About Urbanism and Urban Planning
	References
19 The Trouble with Henri: Urban Research and the Theory of the Production of Space
	19.1 On the Third Wave of Lefebvre Interpretation
	19.2 A General Historical-Materialist Theory of Society
		19.2.1 The Historical Production of Social Realities and Theoretical Concepts
		19.2.2 A General Theory of Society in Space and Time
	19.3 On Lefebvre’s Epistemology
		19.3.1 A Three-Dimensional Dialectic
		19.3.2 Concrete Abstraction
		19.3.3 Strategy of Knowledge
	19.4 On the Relationship Between Theory and Empirical Research
		19.4.1 Transdisciplinarity
		19.4.2 Transduction
		19.4.3 Critique and Project
	19.5 The Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Production of Space
		19.5.1 Networks, Borders, Differences
	19.6 On the Analysis of Urban Territories
		19.6.1 Complete Urbanization in Switzerland
		19.6.2 On Planetary Urbanization
	19.7 Representations of Space and ‘Other’ Spaces
		19.7.1 The Project: A New Image of Switzerland
		19.7.2 Havana Profunda: ‘Forgotten’ Space and Alternative Project
	19.8 Beyond Lefebvre34
	References
20 Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille Plateaux, 1980: “The Good Use of Philosophy”
	20.1 Why (and How) Planners Should Read Philosophical Books?
	20.2 Encounter
	20.3 Atmosphere
	20.4 Text
	20.5 Use
	References
21 Georges Didi-Huberman, La survivance des lucioles (2009). The Thickness of Time: Going Beyond the Surface of the Present to Understand Contemporary Territories
	21.1 Genealogies
	21.2 Two Excellent Witnesses
	21.3 The Disappearance of Fireflies: Towards a Criticism of the Apocalyptic Vision
	21.4 Fireflies Have Not Disappeared: Let Go of the Zenithal Gaze and Adopt a Wandering Gaze
	21.5 Communities of Fireflies Dance in the Dark and Open up Towards the Future
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