Description: The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book's twenty-seven case studies draw attention to the centrality of planning in colonial and postcolonial environments, relationships, and contexts.
Brief description: Sarah Blacker is a Sessional Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Toronto.
Review Quotes: The Planning Moment is a smorgasbord of twenty-seven mini- case studies of plans and planning, capaciously defined, and widely geographically dispersed. . . If the book helps the planners of today--and of the very near future--formulate better plans that are more alert to the contingencies, unintended effects, and harms that this volume highlights, it will have done us all a great service.-- "Technology and Culture"