Stretching Beyond the Horizon: A Multiplanar Theory of Spatial Planning and Governance

Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface: The Dilemma of a Middle, or, the Middle of a Dilemma
Part 1: ‘A Thickness on Which Shadows Play’
	1 Shadows of the Future
		Introduction
		Crossing the Limits: ‘To think is to experiment’
		Lines of Flight: Unsettling Shibboleths
		‘Open to possibility’: Beyond Transcendence to Immanence
		Book Trajectory
	2 Transdisciplinary Shadows
		Introduction
		Networks of Communicative/Collaborative Planning and Governance
		The Lack and the Constitutive Outside
		Representation and Perception
		Fluidity, Space and Time
		Complexity: ‘If things were simple, word would have gotten round’
		Complexity Theories in Evolution
		Actant-Network Theory
	3 ‘Following the Witch’s Flight’: Artfully Introducing Deleuzoguattarian Ideas
		Introduction
		Towards a Deleuzean-Inspired Conceptual Vocabulary
		Artful Illustrations: Multiplicity, Connection and Fragmentation
		Two Poststructuralist Applications: Analyses of Space and Governance
		Conclusions: Spatial Planning and Governance as Experimentation
Part 2: Resonances, Interferences, Encounters and Connections
	4 Sweeping the Dust of Fixities: Reconceptualising Time and Space in Planning and Governance
		Introduction: Once Upon a Time ...
		Kumarangk: Stories
		On Time: To Henri Bergson and Duration
		Time and Space Beyond Bergson
		Possibilities and Potentialities: Virtual Futures
		Conclusions: A Dash of Courage Too!
	5 Land, Rights, Laws: Legalised Obliteration of Spatial Meanings, Knowledges and Beliefs
		Introduction
		Speaking of the Unspeakable
		Habermasian Analysis: The Power of Mediatisation
		Beyond Habermas
		Reconceptualising ‘Rules’
		Conclusions
	6 Woven, Knotted and Matted: Entangled Complex Systems and Non-Linear Dynamics of Space-Time
		Introduction
		Old-Growth Forests in South-West Western Australia
		Regimes of Signs
		Forests as Rhizomic Multiplicities
		Folds, Complications, Multiplications
		Constitutive Outsides
		Conclusions
	7 On Justice Between Absence and Presence: The ‘Ghost Ships’ of Graythorp
		Introduction
		Ghosts Haunt Hartlepool
		Assemblages, Machines and Folds: A Deleuzoguattarian Frame
		On Social and Environmental Justice: ‘Ghost Fleet Torpedoed by Planning Wrangle’
		Complex Foldings and Connections
		Oscillations and Perturbations
		Responsibility for Justice
		Conclusions: Just Ghosts in the Machine
Part 3: Straddling the Abyss
	8 Coming from the Outside of Thought: Problematising Representation as a Step Towards a Postrepresentational Theory of Spatial Planning and Governance
		Introduction
		What is Representation?
		Representation as Performative
		Some Problems with Representation
		What is Postrepresentation? Or, How might it be Possible to Think Beyond the Realm of Representation
		Shadow Worlds and Unstable Building Blocks: Nigel Thrift and Non-Representation
		Derrida and Foucault on Representation
		Deleuzean Representation, Clichés and Diagrams
		Postrepresentational Thinking: Planning and Governance as Open Wholes?
	9 Planning and Governance as Speculative Experimentation: A Postrepresentational Theory
		Introduction
		Becoming-Planning, Becoming-Governance
		Spatial Planning and Urban Governance as Baroque?
		Planning as Speculation: A Postrepresentational Theory of Planning
		Multiplanar Spatial Planning: A Theory of Visual Dust and Sonic Echoes
		Working Towards Multiplanar Planning and Governance
		Dealing with Potential Criticism
		Non-Conclusions: Diagrams of Multiplanar Evolutionary Planning and Governance
	10 Multiplanar Planning: Crossing the Threshold into Practice
		Introduction
		Baroque Spacing: Examples of Multiplanar Thinking
		Performance-Based Planning
		What Might Performance-Based Planning Do?
		Conclusions: A Practical Means of Going On
	11 Turbulence within the Flow
		Introduction
		Multiplanar Planning and Governance; A Different Vision is Possible
		In-Conclusion: ‘Work in Progress’
References
Index