1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action
The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how institutional innovation occurs in practices of action. The contributors share expertise on institutional innovation and philosophical pragmatism. They discuss the different facets of these two conceptual frameworks and explore the alternative combinations through which they can be approached. The relevance of these conceptual lines of thought will be exemplified in exploring the contemporary practices of sustainable (climate-proof) urban transition. The aim of the handbook is to give a boost to the turn of institutional analysis in the context of action in changing cities.
Both philosophical pragmatism and institutional innovation rest on wide international uses in social sciences and planning studies, and may be considered as complementary for many reasons. However, the combination of these different approaches is all but evident and creates a number of dilemmas. After an encompassing introductory section entitled Institutions in Action, the handbook is further divided into the following sections:
- Institutional innovation
- Pragmatism: The Dimension of Action
- On Justification
- Cultural and Political Institutions in Action
- Institutions and Urban Transition
Preface
Willem Salet (Ed.)
Foreword
Richard Bolan
Part 1 Institutions in Action
- Institutions in Action
Willem Salet - Developing a ‘Sociological Institutionalist’ Approach to Analysing Institutional Change in Place Governance
Patsy Healey - Political Articulation and Hegemonic Practices in the Institutionalization of the ‘Urban Order’
Enrico Gualini - Discursive Institutionalism and Planning Ideas
Simin Davoudi - Institutions in Urban Space: Land, Infrastructure, and Governance in the Production of Urban Property
André Sorensen - Moving Towards a Flat Ontology of Institutional Innovation: Actor-Relational Lessons Learned from Early Water Management Perspectives
Luuk Boelens - Planning and the Politics of Hope: A Critical Inquiry
Jonathan Metzger - Adapting Different Planning Theories for Practical Judgment
Charles Hoch - From Garbage in the Streets to Organizers’ Opportunities: Exploring the Institutional Pragmatics of Democratic Inter-Subjectivity
John Forester - What Can We Learn from Evolutionary Theory When Confronting the Deep Challenges of Our Times?
Luca Bertolini - Learning and Governance Culture in Planning Practice: The Case of Otaniemi
Raine Mäntysalo, Kaisa Schmidt-Thomé & Simo Syrman - Constitutions, Laws and Practices: Ethics of Planning and Ethics of Planners
Stefano Moroni - How to Contextualize Legal Norms in Practices of Sustainable Development? Distinguishing Principles, Rules and Procedural Norms
Anoeska Buijze, Willem Salet & Marleen van Rijswick - Interpreting Planning as Actions 'In Plural': From Democratic Claim to Diverse Institutional Change
Monika De Frantz - Provenance, Ideology and the Public Interest in Planning
Leonie Janssen-Jansen & Greg Lloyd - Contextualizing Institutional Meaning Through Aesthetic Relations. A Pragmatist Understanding of Local Action
Julie-Anne Boudreau - ‘London’s Vatican’: The Role of the City’s New Architectural Icons as Institutional Imaginaries
Maria Kaika - The Political Nature of Symbols: Explaining Institutional Inertia and Change
Federico Savini & Sebastian Dembski - The Urban Commons and Cultural Industries: An Exploration of the Institutional Embeddedness of Architectural Design in the Netherlands
Robert. C. Kloosterman - Pragmatism and Institutional Actions in Planning the Metropolitan Area of Milan
Alessandro Balducci - Paradoxes of the Intervention Policy in Favelas in São Paulo: How the Practice Turned Out the Policy...
Suzana Pasternak & Camila D’Ottaviano - Ambiguity as an Opportunity: Coping With Change in Urban Megaprojects
Stan Majoor - Instituting Resilience in the Making of the Istanbul Metropolis
Ayda Eraydin & Tuna Taşan-Kok - Urban Transformation in the Northern Randstad: How Institutions Structure Planning Practice
Jochem de Vries &Wil Zonneveld - Weaving the Threads of Institutions and Planning in Action
Mickey Lauria
Part 2 Institutional innovation
Part 3 Pragmatism: The Dimension of Action
Part 4 On Justification
Part 5 Cultural and Political Institutions in Action
Part 6 Institutions and urban transition
Reflection
Biography
Willem Salet is professor emeritus of urban and regional planning at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He chaired the group Urban Planning until 2017. He was the scientific director of the Amsterdam Study Center for the Metropolitan Environment (AME) 2008-2013. He was the president of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 2008-2010 and was awarded an honorary membership of AESOP in 2016.