The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action

The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how institutional innovation occurs in practices of action. The contributors share expertise on institutional innovation and philosophical pragmatism. They discuss the different facets of these two conceptual frameworks and explore the alternative combinations through which they can be approached. The relevance of these conceptual lines of thought will be exemplified in exploring the contemporary practices of sustainable (climate-proof) urban transition. The aim of the handbook is to give a boost to the turn of institutional analysis in the context of action in changing cities. Both philosophical pragmatism and institutional innovation rest on wide international uses in social sciences and planning studies, and may be considered as complementary for many reasons. However, the combination of these different approaches is all but evident and creates a number of dilemmas. After an encompassing introductory section entitled Institutions in Action, the handbook is further divided into the following sections: Institutional innovation Pragmatism: The Dimension of Action On Justification Cultural and Political Institutions in Action Institutions and Urban Transition

Willem Salet is professor emeritus of urban and regional planning at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He chaired the group Urban Planning until 2017. He was the scientific director of the Amsterdam Study Center for the Metropolitan Environment (AME) 2008-2013. He was the president of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 2008-2010 and was awarded an honorary membership of AESOP in 2016.

Preface. Foreword. Part 1 Institutions in Action 1. Institutions in Action 2. Developing a 'Sociological Institutionalist' Approach to Analysing Institutional Change in Place Governance 3. Political Articulation and Hegemonic Practices in the Institutionalization of the 'Urban Order' Part 2 Institutional Innovation 4. Discursive Institutionalism and Planning Ideas 5. Institutions in Urban Space: Land, Infrastructure, and Governance in the Production of Urban Property 6. Moving Towards a Flat Ontology of Institutional Innovation: Actor-Relational Lessons Learned from Early Water Management Perspectives 7. Planning and the Politics of Hope: A Critical Inquiry Part 3 Pragmatism: The Dimension of Action 8. Adapting Different Planning Theories for Practical Judgment 9. From Garbage in the Streets to Organizers' Opportunities: Exploring the Institutional Pragmatics of Democratic Inter-Subjectivity 10. What Can We Learn from Evolutionary Theory When Confronting the Deep Challenges of Our Times? 11. Learning and Governance Culture in Planning Practice: The Case of Otaniemi Part 4 On Justification 12. Constitutions, Laws and Practices: Ethics of Planning and Ethics of Planners 13. How to Contextualize Legal Norms in Practices of Sustainable Development? Distinguishing Principles, Rules and Procedural Norms 14. Interpreting Planning as Actions 'In Plural': From Democratic Claim to Diverse Institutional Change 15. Provenance, Ideology and the Public Interest in Planning Part 5 Cultural and Political Institutions in Action 16. Contextualizing Institutional Meaning Through Aesthetic Relations. A Pragmatist Understanding of Local Action 17. 'London's Vatican': The Role of the City's New Architectural Icons as Institutional Imaginaries 18. The Political Nature of Symbols: Explaining Institutional Inertia and Change 19. The Urban Commons and Cultural Industries: An Exploration of the Institutional Embeddedness of Architectural Design in the Netherlands Part 6 Institutions and Urban Transition 20. Pragmatism and Institutional Actions in Planning the Metropolitan Area of Milan 21. Paradoxes of the Intervention Policy in Favelas in São Paulo: How the Practice Turned Out the Policy... 22. Ambiguity as an Opportunity: Coping With Change in Urban Megaprojects 23. Instituting Resilience in the Making of the Istanbul Metropolis 24. Urban Transformation in the Northern Randstad: How Institutions Structure Planning Practice Reflection 25. Weaving the Threads of Institutions and Planning in Action