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: Robert J. Kett is Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at ArtCenter College of Design and Adjunct Curator at the Palm Springs Art Museum.
Review Quotes: The Planning Moment provides a much-needed revision to the notion of a homogenous modernity and to top-down accounts of state planning. In recognizing the contested and often multiple futures that emerged from the disjuncture between plan and action, the book charts fresh directions past impasses that mark contemporary technophilia and technophobia.---Orit Halpern, author of The Smartness Mandate