Actor Networks of Planning: Exploring the influence of Actor Network Theory 9781138886407, 9781315714882

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series information
Endorsement Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Exploring the influence of ANT
Introduction
The emergence of Actor Network Theory
Key features of ANT
ANT and planning studies
Appreciation of the nuanced ways in which plan creation and implementation relationships are developed
Identification of the complex and context-specific nature of power dynamics
Greater understanding of the implications of progressive agendas
Previewing the insights from our explorations in ANT
Lessons for planning practice
Lessons for planning scholarship
References
Part I Using ANT: applied planning analyses
2 Constructing ‘green building’: heterogeneous networks and the translation of sustainability into planning in Israel
Introduction: green building, planning and the standardization of sustainable design
Green building through the lens of ANT
Green building and planning in Israel: an ANT perspective
Background
Network, enrolments, translations: multiple rationales for green building
From consensus to black box: actor network invisibility
Material enrolment: defining green building
Mandatory adoption of green building: a synthesis
Discussion
Notes
References
3 Planned derailment for new urban futures? An actant network analysis of the ‘great [light] rail debate’ in Newcastle, Australia
Introduction
Actor Network Theory and planning
Conflicting problematizions: the ‘great [light] rail debate’
A new planning translation: 2014 Newcastle Urban Regeneration Strategy (Update)
Translation point I: models of urban form and data
Translation point II: alternative urban mobilities
Translation point III: imagery and maps
Conclusion: fragile planning actant networks
Notes
References
4 Grants as significant objects in community engagement networks: kelowna, British Columbia
Introduction
Engagement and Actor Network Theory (ANT)
A case study: CB25 of Kelowna
Enrolment: promoting wellness for youth emerging from the child protection system
Discussion: was CB25 successful at engagement?
The ANT lens reveals engagement
Notes
References
5 Assembling localism: practices of assemblage and building the ‘Big Society’ in Oxfordshire, England
Introduction
Planning, localism and practices of assemblage
From the abstract to the concrete: assembling the Big Society in Oxfordshire
‘If the Big Society can’t work in Oxfordshire, it won’t work anywhere’
Framing the arena for intervention: authorizing knowledge
Forging alliances: remaking publics and places
Managing failure: enter the Big Society Fund
Reassembling: a victory or a stay of execution?
Conclusions: using assemblage to think through localism
Note
References
6 Two exemplar green developments in Norway: tales of qualculation and non-qualculation
Introduction
Planning as a creation of spaces of qualculation and non-qualculation
Two cases of contemporary sustainable planning in Norway
Powerhouse Brattørkaia
The active houses of Hurdal
Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
7 Unpacking the Swedish urban sustainable imaginary: at the World Expo, Shanghai, China
The Swedish urban sustainable imaginary
ANT as a material-semiotic toolkit in planning research
ANT and space
ANT unpacking the construction of facts
ANT as a material-semiotic toolkit
The Swedish pavilion at the World Expo as a node in a wider network
Unpacking the black-boxing of SymbioCity
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
8 The king and the square: relationships of the material, cultural and political in the redesign of Stortorget, Malmö, Sweden
Introduction
Proposing a new image for Stortorget
The king
The square for cultural events
Planning with mutable mobiles?
References
9 Assembling energy futures: seawater district heating in The Hague, the Netherlands
Introduction
The case study: seawater district heating in the Netherlands
The project as an assemblage
Mapping the elements of the system
Tracing territories of the system
Exploring the ecologies of the system
The sea
The rhythms of the system
Conclusions: the seamed web?
Note
References
Part II The way forward: innovative practices and theoretical controversies
10 Does Actor Network Theory help planners to think about change?
Introduction
Climate change planning in New York City
Planned change
Actor network change
Conclusion
Notes
References
11 ‘Emergent places’: innovative practices in Zurich, Switzerland
Introduction
ANT and complexity in/for planning
The quest for urban quality: a residential area in the airport region of Zurich
Analysis of the case presented
Combining ANT and assemblage theory
Conclusion
Note
References
12 Planning tactics of undefined becoming: applications within Urban Living Labs of Flanders’ N16 corridor, Belgium
Introduction: ontological deliberations
Practicalities
The N16 Lab
Discussion
References
13 Hydro-urbanism in London: using co-evolutionary Actor Network Theory as a prospective methodology
Introduction
Co-evolutionary Actor Network Theory
Hydro-urban co-evolutionary ANT methods for London
Hydro-urbanism in London
Conclusion
References
14 Towards an extended symmetry: using ANT to reflect on the theory and practice gap
Introduction
Symmetry as a means of looking outwards/forwards and inwards/backwards
Tools for working inwards/backwards
Thinking through the government of academic accounts
Extending a relational approach to disciplinary self-government
Subjectivities of neoliberalized planning
Concluding discussion
References
15 ‘A grand question of design’: knowledge, space and difference in early and late Latour
The relationship of mind and world in early and later Latour
Spatializing difference: planning’s place within ANT
References
Index

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