Cities After Planning: New article by Nikhil Anand and Jenny Lindblad Published in Society and Space
Published in Society and Space, this special issue examines the worlds that are brought into being after plans are made and differentially conjured into being; after its critiques of modernist simplification and transposability have been read, recognized, and incorporated by planners in their practice. In this issue, the articles by Jenny Lindblad and Alize Arican show how planners, politicians, and workers alike wrestle with their agency in the wide time spaces between the plan’s intentions and its becoming. Jennifer Mack shows how planners respond to the “hereafters” of modernist planning; how they spatialize race and respond to critiques of producing dangerous, non-white spaces. Finally, as urban plans configure infrastructures to waste the sea, Nikhil Anand’s paper shows how life that emerges in the waste ecologies of the Anthroposea evade any simple categorizations of nature and culture, or pollution and nutrients. These dynamic processes evacuate the stable near futures upon which the work of ecological restoration and urban planning depend.