Planning Matter: Acting with Things
Robert A. Beauregard
Abstract
City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world from highway interchanges, retention ponds, and affordable housing units to zoning documents, conference rooms, and consultants’ reports. The material world of planning is acknowledged but insufficiently theorized. In Planning Matter, Robert Beauregard offers a new materialist perspective on planning practice that relies heavily on actor-network theory and science and technology studies to reveal the many ways in which the non-human things of the world mediate what planners say and do. In order to emphasize the importance ... More
Keywords: regional planning, city planning, new materialism, actor network theory, things, practice, theory
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226297255 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226297422.001.0001 |
