Today; urban scholars think of cities and regions as evolving through networks of human associations; technologies; and natural ecologies. This being the case; planners are faced with the?task of navigating a profoundly material world. Planning?with and for humans alone is unacceptable: in the unfolding of urban processes; non-human things cannot be ignored. This inclusive vision has consequences for how planners envision the connections among norms; technologies and life-worlds as well as how they design and implement their plans.?The contributors to this volume utilize a variety of examples ndash; ecologically-sensitive; regional planning?in Naples (Italy); congestion pricing in New York City; and public participation?in Europe; among others ndash; to explore how planners?engage a heterogeneous and restless world. Inspired by assemblage thinking and actor-network theory; each chapter draws on this "new materialism" to acknowledge; in quite pragmatic ways; that spatial politics is a process of becoming that is inseparable from the materiality of urban practices.
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