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"I think this will be a fundamental and widely used text in planning schools and planning courses and will also be of major interest to students and workers in sociology and urban studies. Further, a number of the articles are real contributions in other fields: feminist theory, gay and lesbian literature, United States history, historiography, black and minority studies."—Peter Marcuse, Columbia University
List of contents
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
Introduction: Framing Insurgent Historiographies for Planning
Leonie Sandercock
PART I• HISTORICAL PRACTICES
1. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship
James Holston
2. Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives on Preservation Planning
Gail Lee Dubrow
3. Regional Blocs, Regional Planning, and the Blues Epistemology in the Lower Mississippi
Delta
Clyde Woods
4. Indigenous Planning: Clans, Intertribal Confederations, and the History of the
All Indian Pueblo Council
Theodore S. Jojola
5. Remember, Stonewall Was a Riot: Understanding Gay and Lesbian Experience in the City
Moira Rachel Kn111ey
PART II• TEXTUAL AND THEORETICAL PRACTICES
6. Knowing Different Cities: Reflections on Recent European Writings on Cities and
Planning History
Iain Borden, Jane Rendell, and Helen Thomas
7. City Planning for Girls: Exploring the Ambiguous Nature of Women's Planning History
Susan Marie Wirka
8. Tropics of Planning Discourse: Stalking the "Constructive Imaginary" of Selected
Urban Planning Histories
Olivier Kramsch
9. Subversive Histories: Texts from South Africa
Robert A. Beauregard
10. Racial Inequality and Empowerment: Necessary Theoretical Constructs for
Understanding U.S. Planning History
June Manning Thomas
11. Afraid/Not: Psychoanalytic Directions for an Insurgent Planning Historiography
Dora Epstein
12. The Poem of Male Desires: Female Bodies, Modernity, and "Paris, Capital of the
Nineteenth Century"
Barbara Hooper
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
About the author
Leonie Sandercock is Professor of Human Settlements and Head of the Department of Landscape, Environment, and Planning at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia.
Summary
Includes essays that counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. This book examines a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions.
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"More than anything else this book represents a clear call to all those involved in the writing (and teaching) of planning history of the need to remember that processes of exclusion are rarely documented in mainstream planning history. . . . The work deserves a wide audience, notwithstanding its largely American provenance."
