The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action

The Routledge Handbook of Institutions andPlanning in Actioncontains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusingon the question of how institutional innovation occursin 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 andinstitutional 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 entitledInstitutions in Action, the handbook is furtherdivided into the following sections: Institutional innovation Pragmatism: The Dimension of Action On Justification Cultural and Political Institutions in Action Institutions and Urban Transition

Preface Willem Salet (Ed.) Foreword Richard Bolan Part 1 Institutions in Action Institutions in ActionWillem Salet Developing a ‘Sociological Institutionalist’ Approach to Analysing Institutional Change in Place GovernancePatsy Healey Political Articulation and Hegemonic Practices in the Institutionalization of the ‘Urban Order’Enrico Gualini Part 2 Institutional innovation Discursive Institutionalism and Planning IdeasSimin Davoudi Institutions in Urban Space: Land, Infrastructure, and Governance in the Production of Urban PropertyAndré Sorensen Moving Towards a Flat Ontology of Institutional Innovation: Actor-Relational Lessons Learned from Early Water Management PerspectivesLuuk Boelens Planning and the Politics of Hope: A Critical InquiryJonathan Metzger Part 3 Pragmatism: The Dimension of Action Adapting Different Planning Theories for Practical JudgmentCharles Hoch From Garbage in the Streets to Organizers’ Opportunities: Exploring the Institutional Pragmatics of Democratic Inter-SubjectivityJohn Forester What Can We Learn from Evolutionary Theory When Confronting the Deep Challenges of Our Times?Luca Bertolini Learning and Governance Culture in Planning Practice: The Case of OtaniemiRaine Mäntysalo, Kaisa Schmidt-Thomé & Simo Syrman Part 4 On Justification Constitutions, Laws and Practices: Ethics of Planning and Ethics of PlannersStefano Moroni How to Contextualize Legal Norms in Practices of Sustainable Development? Distinguishing Principles, Rules and Procedural NormsAnoeska Buijze, Willem Salet & Marleen van Rijswick Interpreting Planning as Actions 'In Plural': From Democratic Claim to Diverse Institutional ChangeMonika De Frantz Provenance, Ideology and the Public Interest in PlanningLeonie Janssen-Jansen & Greg Lloyd Part 5 Cultural and Political Institutions in Action Contextualizing Institutional Meaning Through Aesthetic Relations. A Pragmatist Understanding of Local ActionJulie-Anne Boudreau ‘London’s Vatican’: The Role of the City’s New Architectural Icons as Institutional ImaginariesMaria Kaika The Political Nature of Symbols: Explaining Institutional Inertia and ChangeFederico Savini & Sebastian Dembski The Urban Commons and Cultural Industries: An Exploration of the Institutional Embeddedness of Architectural Design in the NetherlandsRobert. C. Kloosterman Part 6 Institutions and urban transition Pragmatism and Institutional Actions in Planning the Metropolitan Area of MilanAlessandro Balducci Paradoxes of the Intervention Policy in Favelas in São Paulo: How the Practice Turned Out the Policy...Suzana Pasternak & Camila D’Ottaviano Ambiguity as an Opportunity: Coping With Change in Urban MegaprojectsStan Majoor Instituting Resilience in the Making of the Istanbul MetropolisAyda Eraydin & Tuna Tasan-Kok Urban Transformation in the Northern Randstad: How Institutions Structure Planning PracticeJochem de Vries &Wil Zonneveld Reflection Weaving the Threads of Institutions and Planning in ActionMickey Lauria

Willem Salet is professor emeritusof 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. Hewas the president of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 2008-2010 andwas awarded an honorary membership of AESOP in 2016.