“Learning the city”: Patrick Geddes, exhibitions, and communicating planning ideas

Amati, Marco; Freestone, Robert; Robertson, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.09.006

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“…While World Fairs can be seen as spectacles commodifying the future and manipulating audiences into accepting an imposed future (Benjamin 1970), they are also examples of now-making events insofar as they explicitly position space and society in time. Perhaps less problematically, Patrick Geddes's "Learning the City" planning exhibitions sought to get audiences to think about the evolution of urban space through time and thus about how we dwell in time (Amati, Freestone, and Robertson 2017). Permanent "Urban studies centers" such as that in Bologna, Italy, seek to develop similar forms of civic exchange and engagement in the transformation of the city (see http://www.fondazioneinnovazioneurbana.it.).…”

Section: Discussion: It's Time For New Planning Terms and Propositionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On Time and Planning: Opening Futures by Cultivating a “Sense of Now”

Laurian

Inch

2018

Journal of Planning Literature

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Planning seeks to shape sociospatial outcomes but is also, by nature, future oriented. Yet, planning theory and practice have paid relatively little attention to ongoing debates about changing social relations to time. Building on a wide range of disciplines, we review the multiple temporalities through which lives are lived, the modern imposition of clock time, postmodern acceleration phenomena in the Anthropocene, and their implications for planning’s relationship to the past, present, and future and for planning theory. We discuss how thinking more and differently about time might challenge and improve planning by helping theory do better justice to the complexity of practice. We conclude by outlining eight propositions for rethinking planning’s relationship to time.

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Section: Discussion: It's Time For New Planning Terms and Propositionsmentioning

confidence: 99%