Making the invisible visible : a multicultural planning history / edited by Leonie Sandercock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Framing insurgent historiographies for planning / Leonie Sandercock -- Historical practices: Spaces of insurgent citizenship / James Holston ; Feminist and multicultural perspectives on preservation planning / Gail Lee Dubrow ; Regional blocs, regional planning, and the blues epistemology in the lower Mississippi Delta / Clyde Woods ; Indigenous planning : clans, intertribal confederations, and the history of the All Indian Pueblo Council / Theodore S. Jojola ; Remember, Stonewall was a riot : understanding gay and lesbian experience in the city / Moira Rachel Kenney -- Textual and theoretical practices: Knowing different cities : reflections on recent European writings on cities and planning history / Iain Borden, Jane Rendell, and Helen Thomas ; City planning for girls : exploring the ambiguous nature of women's planning history / Susan Marie Wirka ; Tropics of planning discourse : stalking the "constructive imaginary" of selected urban planning histories / Olivier Kramsch ; Subversive histories : texts from South Africa / Robert A. Beauregard ; Racial inequality and empowerment : necessary theoretical constructs for understanding U.S. planning history / June Manning Thomas ; Afraid/not : psychoanalytic directions for an insurgent planning historiography / Dora Epstein ; The poem of male desires : female bodies, modernity, and "Paris, capital of the nineteenth century" / Barbara Hooper.

The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning. Through a variety of critical lenses-feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial-the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. Some contributors uncover indigenous planning traditions that have been erased from the record: African American and Native American traditions, for example. Other contributors explore new themes: themes of gendered spaces and racist practices, of planning as an ordering tool, a kind of spatial police, of "bodies, cities, and social order" (influenced by Foucault, Lefebvre, and others), and of resistance. This scrutiny of the class, race, gender, ethnic, or ideological biases of ideas and practices inherent in the notion of planning as a modernist social technology clearly points to the inadequacy of modernist planning histories. Making the Invisible Visible redefines planning as the regulation of the physicality, sociality, and spatiality of the city. Its histories provide the foundation of a new, alternative planning paradigm for the multicultural cities of the future. -- Provided by publisher.

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