Planning in Ten Words or Less: A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning

Half Title\nDedication Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgements\n1. Planning as an Empty Signifier\n	Introduction\n	An Introduction to Spatial Planning: Art, Science or merely Ideology?\n	The Language of and in Planning\n	Why Lacan?\n	A Dash of Lacanian Insight: Master Signifiers, Identity and Knowledge\n	Ten Contestable Words: Demystifying the Symbolic Equipment of Planning Practice\n	Book Structure\n2 The Lack of Certainty\n	Introduction\n	The Concept of Lack: Thanks Mum!\n	Desire for the Harmony of Wholeness\n	The Fantasies of Certainty which Spatial Planning Provides\n	The Framing of Planning Fantasy\n	To Give Certainty of Belief\n3 Prescribing the Good\n	Introduction\n	The Good City and the Delirium of Utopia\n	Self-Identity and the ‘big Other’\n	For Your Own Good: A New Form of Therapy\n	The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Australasian Fantasies of Designer Cities\n	On ‘Ought’ and Other Normatives\n	Desirous Places\n4 The Haunting of Risk\n	Introduction\n	Social Constructionism versus Scientific Empiricism\n	Planning for Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society\n	Outside of Representation: Beyond the Symbolic and Image – The Real\n	The Spectre of Derrida\n	Beyond the Haunting of Risk\n5 Is Smart Growth Dumb?\n	Introduction\n	Desire: Jouissance\n	Smart Growth\n	When the Limits of Growth are Reached, Carry on Consuming!\n	Law and its Transgression\n	Traversing the Fantasies of Consumer Behaviour: Beyond the Housing Market?\n	Beyond the American Dream: The Global Dream to Consume and Enjoy?\n6 Pressures of Competitive Globalisation\n	Introduction\n	Beauregard and After\n	Contemporary Dimensions of Competitive Globalisation\n	Time for Lacanian and Žižekian Theory\n	The Four Discourses\n	Enjoyment Provided by the One’s Who Know\n	The Reification of Enjoyment: You Will Enjoy, Not Transgress!\n	Globalised Happiness Whether You Want It or Not\n	The Beginning Continues …\n7 Multiculturalism : The Other Always Steals My Enjoyment\n	Introduction\n	Master Signifiers, Identifications and Difference\n	Planning Signifiers of Difference\n	Lacanian Discourses: Including the Hysteric’s and Analyst’s\n	Drawing out the Signifiers that Repress: The Value of the Scapegoat\n	Wearing Scarves is Fine: So is Eating Cows, Whales, Dogs and Pigs, and not to mention, your Vegetables\n	The Exclusion of Inclusion\n8 Sustainability of and for the Market?\n	Introduction\n	The Rise of a Master Signifier: Sustainability and Planning Education\n	Sustainability as Master Signifier of Diverse Meaning\n	The Value of Sustainability to Spatial Planning\n	The Pernicious Nature of Sustainability as an Imperative\n	The ‘Sustainable Development’ Imposition of Social Injustice and even Environmental Ambivalence\n	In the Name of Competitiveness: Sustainability Deployed as an Authoritarian Illusion\n	Saving the Baby, but Throwing out the Pernicious Bath-Water\n9 Responsibility to Whom?\n	To Be Responsible\n	Modernist Responsibility: Duty and the Delineated Good\n	Alternative Abilities that Respond\n	Towards Responsible Spatial Planning\n10 Beyond the Mere Rationality of Planning\n	Introduction\n	The Problems of Rationality\n	Spatial Planners as Lacanian Subjects\n	If Lacan Makes Sense: What Then?\n	Conclusion\nBibliography\nIndex