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Governing cities through participation—a Foucauldian analysis of CityPlan Vancouver

Marit Rosol
- 17 Feb 2015 - 
- Vol. 36, Iss: 2, pp 256-276
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In this paper, the Foucauldian governmentality approach is used to understand the shift towards intensification of Vancouver's extensive participatory planning process known as CityPlan, and the authors examine this "governing through participation" by carrying out a microanalysis of the problematizations, rationalities and technologies of CityPlan.
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In 1995 Vancouver City Council approved new policy guidelines for future urban development that departed from the traditional model of suburban growth, instead prioritizing urban intensification. Theoretically guided by the Foucauldian governmentality approach, I argue in this paper that this shift towards intensification can be understood through an analysis of Vancouver’s extensive participatory planning process known as CityPlan. Created as an answer to conflicts around the intensification of historically evolved urban neighbourhoods, CityPlan Vancouver exemplifies a specific form of urban governance that has been understudied in geography and participation research: a governance consisting of conducting the conduct of citizens through participatory processes. The paper examines this “governing through participation” by carrying out a microanalysis of the problematizations, rationalities, and technologies of CityPlan. Such an analysis differs significantly from an evaluation of participatory planning p...

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The archaeology of knowledge

Gary Gutting
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Planning in the Face of Power.

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