Planning and Citizenship [Hardcover]

Planning is undergoing a period of profound change and risks losing meaning and authority by becoming merely a tool for financial speculation and generating capital. Planning and Citizenshipseeks to rediscover plannings technical and theoretical roots by reconstructing the memory of planning through the lens of the changing relationship between planning and citizenship.

Tracing the historical relationship between planning and citizenship through a single thread, Luigi Mazza employs three ancient models  those of Hippodamus, Romulus, and Ancient China  to understand the foundations of spatial governance and citizenship. Paying particular attention to classic case studies of American cities, this book moves through the development of central planning theories by key thinkers like Geddes, Cerd?, Howard, Abercrombie and Lefebre. Analysing the role of government in promoting social citizenship and symbolic values through planning, Mazza takes into account the changing role of government in planning, including concepts of neoliberalism and the minimal State.

Providing critical debate over the current role of spatial governance in planning and citizenship, Planning and Citizenship offers a unique historical analysis of a crucial topic in planning.

Introduction 1. Three archetypes of spatial governance 2. Forms of citizenship and the ordering of space: a brief overview 3. Three American cases 4. British Idealism and Patrick Geddes 5. Social Citizenship 6. Cerd?, Howard, Abercrombie 7. A new form of citizenship: the right to the city 8. The decline of citizenship and spatial governance

Planning and Citizenshipis in a class by itself. Nowhere else are the connections --ancient and recent, inevitable and contingent -- between planners' practices and spatial governance illustrated so elegantly and to such valuable purpose: to clearly show planners whylÃ&