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<p><b>A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practices</b><br><br>Urban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and automobile traffic or how it will meet a demand for thousands of new dwelling units as quickly and with as little avoidable damage as possible. <i>Life Among Urban Planners</i> considers planning professionals in relation to the social contexts in which they operate: the planning office, the construction site, and even in the confrontations with those affected by their work. What roles do planners have in shaping the daily practices of urban life? How do they employ, manipulate, and alter their expertise to meet the demands asked of them? The essays in this volume emphasize planners' cultural values and personal assumptions and critically examine what their persistent commitment to thinking about the future means for the ways in which people live in the present and preserve the past.<br><br><i>Life Among Urban Planners</i> explores the prac

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Author

Jennifer Mack; Michael Herzfeld

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812297164

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Architecture, Sociology