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Planning Matter

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Description for Planning Matter hardcover. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226297255
SKU
V9780226297255
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About Robert A. Beauregard
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.

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