Contents

pp iii-iv

List of figures

pp v-v

List of tables

pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-xiv

Part I - Conceptual framings of technocracy

pp 1-2

1 - The rise of a new urban technocracy

pp 3-18

2 - Planning, knowledge and technocracy in historicalperspective

pp 19-30

Part II - Public planning and bureaucracies in contemporaryurban development politics

pp 31-32

3 - Dealing with tensions: the expertise of boundaryspanners in facilitating communityinitiatives

pp 33-46

4 - Plurality of expert knowledge: public planners’experience with urban contractualism inAmsterdam

pp 47-58

5 - Local government in the face of crisis: changingpublic management of urban projects inAmsterdam

pp 59-74

6 - Captured by bureaucracy: street- levelprofessionals mediating past, present and futureknowledge

pp 75-88

Part III - Corporate knowledge and the land and propertydevelopment sector

pp 89-90

7 - Anticipatory knowledge: how development consultantssee the future

pp 91-102

8 - Towards an ‘information technocracy’: discourses ofLondon’s post-referendum real estate markets

pp 103-114

9 - Finance as technocratic agent in urbandevelopment

pp 115-126

10 - Planning professionalism in the face oftechnocracy: ethics, values and practices

pp 127-138

Part IV - Private consultants and the delivery of publicpolicy

pp 139-140

11 - Professional lobbying in urban planning:depoliticisation or REpoliticisation?

pp 141-156

12 - Advocates, advisors and scrutineers: thetechnocracies of private sector planning inEngland

pp 157-168

13 - Localism and the reconfiguration of planning’spublics in the landscapes of technocracy

pp 169-180

14 - The politics of new urban professions: the case ofurban development engineers

pp 181-196

Part V - New constellations of actors and the management andgovernance of contemporary cities

pp 197-198

15 - Smart cities, algorithmic technocracy and new urbantechnocrats

pp 199-212

16 - Planning by numbers: affordable housing andviability in England

pp 213-224

17 - Transnational design and local implications forplanning: project flights and landings

pp 225-240

18 - Researching the best-practice: academic knowledgeproduction, planning and the post-politicisation ofenvironmental politics

pp 241-254

19 - Conclusions: the technocratic logics ofcontemporary planning

pp 255-268

References

pp 269-308