Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how places are made through stories of four diverse public and private sector working environments.The book provides a unique insight for educators, students and researchers into the everyday lives of planners and those in associated built environment occupations. This exceptional account of the micro-politics of a knowledge-intensive profession also provides an excellent resource for sociologists of contemporary work. The authors use team ethnography to push the methodological frontiers of planning research and to advance organisational ethnography into new areas.

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Information

Publisher

Policy Press

Year

2022

ISBN

9781447365990

Edition

Topic

Architecture

Subtopic

Urban Planning & Landscaping

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Introducing contemporary planning practice
2 Southwell: the privatised local authority
3 Simpsons: the values-driven global consultancy
4 Bakerdale: a ‘traditional’ local authority commercialising under austerity politics
5 OIP: the ‘regular’ planning consultancy
6 So, just what are planners doing?
Notes
References
Index