Slow Planning?: Timescapes, Power and Democracy

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Slow planning? Timescapes, Power and Democracy
Copyright information
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on authors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Time, speed and slow planning?
	Why planning and time?
	Times past?
	Planning fast and slow
	Structure of the book
2 Time and practice in social theory
	Time as a framework for planning
	Section 1: Pierre Bourdieu – time and practice
		Bourdieu: the key ideas
		Habitus, field and capital
		Doxa, illusio and hysteresis
		Bourdieu and time
		Synthesis: time for Bourdieu
	Section 2: Barbara Adam – time and capitalism
		Clock time: creating the conditions for capital
		Commodification of time: equating time with money
		Time compression: making time efficient
		Colonisation of time: regulating behaviour in time
		Control of time: the end game
	Section 3: Helga Nowotny – time and power
	Section 4: Nomi Lazar – time and politics
	Conclusion: timescapes and temporalities in planning
3 Time and participation in planning
	Planning as participatory
		Public sector planners
		Developers
		Politicians – national and local
		Local communities
	The planning timescape in practice
		Plans and policy making
			Example 1: The 30-month local plan proposal (2021–23)
			Example 2: Plan start times and the ‘local development scheme’
			Example 3: Plan monitoring and delivery
			Example 4: Five-year land-supply requirement (until December 2023)
			Example 5: Back-ending of the housing delivery pipeline
		Development management
			Example 6: Pre-application advice – ‘pre-apps’
			Example 7: Planning performance agreements
			Example 8: ‘Fast-tracking’ proposals that deliver affordable housing in London
			Example 9: Determination times for planning applications and ‘extensions of time’
			Example 10: ‘Calling in’ of planning cases
		Limits on community involvement in planning
			Example 11: Speaking rights at planning committees
			Example 12: Consultation periods
			Example 13: Community-led planning
	Participation, people and time in planning
	Time effects/affects in planning
		Exclusion in and of planning: the classic participant view
4 Time and neoliberalisation in planning
	Neoliberalism and planning
		The neoliberal
	Project speed and planning reform
		Planning time, discretion and certainty
	The temporal politics of planning and growth
	Political time and neoliberal planning timescapes
5 Time and deliberation in planning
	Rational and collaborative time: modernist and postmodernist planning
	Public interest, democracy and time in planning
		(Post-)Democratic theory and planning
	Planning time for deliberative democracy
		Examples of deliberation in planning
		Deliberation and delay
	Normative principles and deliberative planning
6 Time, planning and timescapes for the future
	Problematising planning time: neoliberal and normative principles
		Time and tensions between neoliberalised planning and normative principles
		Planning fast and slow reprised
	Planning timescapes for the future
		Multiple temporalities and timescapes
			Project speed as timescape
			Slow planning as timescape
		Timescapes for the future
	Time as a research agenda
References
Index