Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently—as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors, all leading anthropologists, examine the time and space, creativity and agency, authority and responsibility, and conflicting desires that plans attempt to control. They show how the many people involved with planning deal with the discrepancies between what is promised and what is done. The comparative essays offer insight into the expected and unexpected outcomes of planning (from visionary utopias to bureaucratic dystopia or something in-between), how the future is envisioned at the outset, and what actual work is done and how it affects people's lives.

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Cover Page
Title Page
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World. An Introduction
Chapter One Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State
Chapter Two From Within a Community of Planners: Hypercomplexity in Railway Design Work
Chapter Three Invaded City: Structuring Urban Landscapes on the Margins of the Possible (Peru’s Southern Highlands)
Chapter Four Tenure Reformed: Planning for Redress or Progress in South Africa
Chapter Five Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neo-liberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Chapter Six Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur
Chapter Seven Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Planning, Informality and Neo-liberal Governance on the Hooghly
Notes on Contributors
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