Planning in Ten Words or Less

Download or read book Planning in Ten Words or Less written by Michael Gunder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights that these terms, and others, are mere 'empty signifiers', meaning everything and nothing. Based on international examples of planning practice and process, Planning in Ten Words or Less suggests that spatial and urban planning is largely based on the construction and deployment of ideological knowledge claims.