Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Living Life Among Planners 1
4. PART I. Social and Cultural Contexts of Planning
5. 1. Shaping Cultural Space: Reflections on the Politics and Cosmology of Urbanism 19
6. 2. Why Planners Need Anthropologists 42
7. 3. Redesigning the Republic? Public Gardens, Participatory Design, and Citizenship in Immigrant Paris 61
8. PART II. Grand Plans and Their Discontents
9. 4. Zoning as Default: The Politics of Foreign- Sponsored Urban Planning in Siem Reap, Cambodia 83
10. 5. An Anatomy of Failure: Planning After the Fact in Contemporary Bogotá, Colombia 100
11. 6. A “Zoning Tombola”: Informal Planning in Niamey, Niger 119
12. 7. Breaking the Rules, Making the Ruler: Syriac Homes and the Limits of Swedish Planning 137
13. PART III. Resituating a “Universal” Praxis
14. 8. The Scales of Justice: Region, Rights, and Responsibility in St. Louis, Missouri 163
15. 9. Power without the Mustache: Urban Quality as Planning Practice in Post- Industrial Barcelona 179
16. 10. The Games We Play: What Is Participation in Urban Planning? Insights from Warsaw 196
17. 11. From the Real to the Virtual: A Swedish Solution for “Universal” Sustainable Development in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm 216
18. Afterword: The Problem of the Present in Anthropology and Urban Planning 235
19. List of Contributors 243
20. Index 247
21. Acknowledgments 253