Reshaping Planning with Culture (Urban and Regional Planning by Greg Young

Reshaping Planning with Culture (Urban and Regional Planning by Greg Young

By Greg Young

Making plans is defined as being more and more sidelined via the affects of neo-liberalism. even as, 'culture' is owning a brand new inventive weight and significance in sociological, monetary and ecological phrases. This ebook argues that, in mild of this cultural flip, there's a want and chance to re-position making plans and proposes a brand new method of 'culturalisation'. Culturalisation is outlined because the moral, severe and reflexive integration of tradition into making plans. This unique and functional procedure is recommend, displaying how deeper, richer and extra suitable tradition could be utilised in making plans, taking into consideration cultural idea, neo-modern and post-modern making plans thought. This new theoretical strategy is illustrated with international examples and chapters detailing new vistas for a refurbished making plans.

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The consumption of culture enhances the desire for more culture. The cultural industry … feeds on itself and is limitless (2006, xvi). Sassoon also suggests that the pressure to constantly find larger audiences and markets for cultural products underwrites globalisation and is a force for standardisation (2006, xxv). Other commentators argue that culture is expanding and link its expansion to the convergence of the economic and cultural spheres (Soja 1993, 1996; Scott 2000). This global pattern of cultural expansion and diffusion resembles nothing so much as the widespread spatial diffusion of power, as well as its operation at the microlevel of society famously argued by Foucault (1980).

Later, in the 1990s a number of the strands of earlier thinking coalesced in the 1995 findings of the WCC and its report, Our Creative Diversity (1995). In the Commission’s Report its President Javier Perez de Cuellar argued: Just as the Bruntland Commission had so successfully served notice to the international community that a marriage of economy and ecology was overdue and had set in motion a new world agenda for that purpose, so, it was felt, the relationship between culture and development should be clarified and deepened, in practical and constructive ways (WCC 1995, 8).

The examples I cite chime with one of the broadest accounts of cultural change, argued by Manuel Castells in The Information Society (1998) that supports the existence of a cultural era. Castells argues that humanity has entered a new stage in which culture has superseded nature in a purely cultural pattern of social interaction and social organisation produced by the convergence of historical evolution and technological change (Castells 1998, 477). Indeed, in Castells’s new cultural reality, ‘nature’ is preserved only as a cultural form.

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