A01=Robert A. Beauregard
actor-network theory
architectural criticism
Author_Robert A. Beauregard
Category=RPC
city planners
civic duty
conference rooms
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highway interchanges
human world
land use
materiality
new materialist perspective
nonhuman things
perception
plants and animals
preservation
regulatory technologies
retention ponds
science
social philosophy
sociology
technology studies
thought experiment
urban planning
weather patterns
zoning documents
Product details
- ISBN 9780226297255
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world-from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms-yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which they're immersed. Too often planners treat built forms, weather patterns, plants, animals, or regulatory technologies as passively awaiting commands rather than actively involved in the workings of cities and regions. In the ambitious and provocative Planning Matter, Robert A. Beauregard sets out to offer a new materialist perspective on planning practice that reveals the many ways in which the nonhuman things of the world mediate what planners say and do. Drawing on actor-network theory and science and technology studies, Beauregard lays out a framework that acknowledges the inevitable insufficiency of our representations of reality while also engaging more holistically with the world in all of its diversity-including human and nonhuman actors alike.
Robert A. Beauregard is professor of urban planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of When America Became Suburban and Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities.
