Handbook on Planning and Power

Edited by the late Michael Gunder, formerly School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, Kristina Grange, Professor of Urban Planning and Design Theory, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Tanja Winkler, School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

‘The Handbook is distinguished by its multidimensional approach to power, which successfully integrates theoretical concepts with practical applications. [...] The book’s innovative approach, which integrates robust theoretical foundations with practical applications, establishes a standard for planning scholarship. This book serves as a compelling guide for scholars and practitioners alike, offering a comprehensive navigation of the intricate dynamics of power in planning.’

• Contents:Introduction to the Handbook on Planning and Power 1Kristina Grange and Tanja WinklerPART I THEORISING POWER IN PLANNING1 Marxian understandings of power 12Enda Murphy and Linda Fox-Rogers2 Lefebvre’s right to the city and a radical urban citizenship: strugglesaround power in urban planning 26Lina Olsson and Elena Besussi3 Lukes and power: three dimensions and three criticisms 42Raine Mäntysalo4 Michel Foucault, power and planning 58John Pløger5 Deleuze, Guattari and power 74Jean Hillier6 Lacanian perspectives on power in planning 90Chuan Wang7 Filling the empty place: Laclau and Mouffe on power and hegemony 104Nikolai Roskamm8 The destituent power of Rancière’s radical equality 118Camillo Boano9 Communicative planning and the transformative potential of citizen-ledparticipation 134Crystal Legacy10 Insurgent planning and power 149Bjørn Sletto11 Decolonial approaches to thinking planning and power 165Libby Porter12 Questioning the power of normative ethics in planning 181Katie McClymontPART II SITUATING POWER IN PLANNING13 The public good and the power of promises in planning 196Andy Inch14 ‘Tearing down and building up’: a history, theory and practice ofabolitionist housing justice in the US 211Hilary Malson15 Planning, informality and power 228Mona Fawaz16 Planning, power, and uneven development: a rent gap perspective 243Ernesto López-Morales17 Power in planning from a Southern perspective 258James Duminy and Vanessa Watson18 Queer perspectives on planning and power 273Petra Doan and Ozlem Atalay19 Feminist planning in the face of power: from interests and ideologies toinstitutions and intersections 289Leonora C. Angeles20 Neoliberalism and power 305Marlyana Azyyati Marzukhi21 The emerging autonomous smart city and its impacts on planning andpower relations in late capitalism 321Elham Bahmanteymouri and Mohsen Mohammadzadeh22 Power in regulatory planning processes: searching for the third face of power 339Yvonne Rydin23 Power of, on and in planning 354Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld24 A post-postmodernist perspective on power in planning: situatingpractices and power 367Ernest R. Alexander25 Planning, media, and power 381Jaime Lopez and Lisa Schweitzer26 Urban planning and the truthiness question 397Eric SheppardIndex