Planning and Conflict

Section 1: Introduction to the volume  1. Conflict in the City: Democratic, Emancipatory – and Transformative? In Search of the Political in Planning Conflicts  2. Space, Politics and Conflicts: A Review of Contemporary Debates in Urban Research and Planning Theory  Section 2: Dynamics of Contention and Collective Mobilisation in Planning Conflicts  3. What Makes a Protest (Not) Happen? The Fragmented Landscape of Post-Political Conflict Culture  4. Urban Planning without Conflicts? Observations on the Nature and Conditions for Urban Contestation in the Case of Milan  5. A Muddled Landscape of Conflicts: What we can Learn about Planning/Conflict Relationships from the Story of Tor Marancia, Rome, and its Unexpected Shift   Section 3: Knowledge, Power and Hegemony: Exploring the Governmentality of Planning Conflicts  6. Conflict in the Face of Planning? Power, Knowledge, and Hegemony in Planning Practice  7. Planners amidst the Storm: Planning and Politics in the Contested Metropolitan Area of Jerusalem  8. Problem Spaces, Problem Subjects: Contesting Policies in a Shrinking City  9. Mediating Stuttgart 21: The Struggle for Reconstructing Local Democracy between Agonistic and Deliberative Practices  Section 4: Interpretive Policy Analysis and Deliberative Approaches to Planning Conflicts  10. Negotiation as an Interpretive Tool of Conflict Transformation in Deliberative Situations: Learning from the French ‘Public Debate’ on the Extension of the Highway La Francilienne  11. Large Infrastructures and Conflicts: Searching for ‘Boundary Objects’ – Reflections from an Italian Experience  12. Planning through Emotions: Political Lessons from the Controversy between ‘Fat Cats’ and ‘Stupid Activists’ over Re-building Brno Railway Station  13. Develop Stories, Develop Communities: Narrative Practice to Analyse and Engage in Urban Conflict   Afterword