Drawing on research from diverse thinkers in urban planning and the built environment, this Handbook articulates the cutting edge of contemporary understandings about power and its impact on planning. It identifies the current state of knowledge about planning and power, as well as emerging trajectories within this field of research.

Contents: Introduction to the Handbook on Planning and Power 1 Kristina Grange and Tanja Winkler PART I THEORISING POWER IN PLANNING 1 Marxian understandings of power 12 Enda Murphy and Linda Fox-Rogers 2 Lefebvre’s right to the city and a radical urban citizenship: struggles around power in urban planning 26 Lina Olsson and Elena Besussi 3 Lukes and power: three dimensions and three criticisms 42 Raine Mäntysalo 4 Michel Foucault, power and planning 58 John Pløger 5 Deleuze, Guattari and power 74 Jean Hillier 6 Lacanian perspectives on power in planning 90 Chuan Wang 7 Filling the empty place: Laclau and Mouffe on power and hegemony 104 Nikolai Roskamm 8 The destituent power of Rancière’s radical equality 118 Camillo Boano 9 Communicative planning and the transformative potential of citizen-led participation 134 Crystal Legacy 10 Insurgent planning and power 149 Bjørn Sletto 11 Decolonial approaches to thinking planning and power 165 Libby Porter 12 Questioning the power of normative ethics in planning 181 Katie McClymont PART II SITUATING POWER IN PLANNING 13 The public good and the power of promises in planning 196 Andy Inch 14 ‘Tearing down and building up’: a history, theory and practice of abolitionist housing justice in the US 211 Hilary Malson 15 Planning, informality and power 228 Mona Fawaz 16 Planning, power, and uneven development: a rent gap perspective 243 Ernesto López-Morales 17 Power in planning from a Southern perspective 258 James Duminy and Vanessa Watson 18 Queer perspectives on planning and power 273 Petra Doan and Ozlem Atalay 19 Feminist planning in the face of power: from interests and ideologies to institutions and intersections 289 Leonora C. Angeles 20 Neoliberalism and power 305 Marlyana Azyyati Marzukhi 21 The emerging autonomous smart city and its impacts on planning and power relations in late capitalism 321 Elham Bahmanteymouri and Mohsen Mohammadzadeh 22 Power in regulatory planning processes: searching for the third face of power 339 Yvonne Rydin 23 Power of, on and in planning 354 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 24 A post-postmodernist perspective on power in planning: situating practices and power 367 Ernest R. Alexander 25 Planning, media, and power 381 Jaime Lopez and Lisa Schweitzer 26 Urban planning and the truthiness question 397 Eric Sheppard Index