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Time, Politics and Place critically explores time as a political and strategic resource shaping urban governance, planning processes and planning system reform across the UK and Europe. Bringing together leading researchers, it demonstrates how time has been undervalued in spatial planning and advocates for greater attention to temporalities.
The lens of time highlights how different temporal modalities shape what, how and for whom we plan. Dominant approaches stress speed and growth but these can undermine public trust, system integrity and long-term sustainability. Given the challenges faced in the 21st century, the book asserts the need to refigure the active role of time in shaping futures.
‘Thought provoking, challenging and revealing in how time is treated in planning theory and practice – while planning is assumed to be a future oriented task, how time as a concept is used and misused, or deployed in policy and practice has been given limited attention. The depth and range of the cases explored are a real strength in this volume and this level of analysis provides a significant contribution to the field... both new theoretical and empirical insights to understanding planning practice, particularly in the context of neoliberal/entrepreneurial planning regimes and how ‘time’ is positioned as a power play in urban politics. An excellent, insightful and ‘useable’ book that will appeal to researchers and students alike.’ Mark Scott, University College Dublin
Gavin Parker is Professor of Planning Studies at the University of Reading. Gavin co-authored Slow Planning? Timescapes, Power and Democracy (2024) with Mark Dobson.
Mark Dobson is Lecturer in Planning and Development at the University of Reading. Mark co-authored Slow Planning? Timescapes, Power and Democracy (2024) with Gavin Parker.
1. Time, Politics and Place in Planning and Urban Governance - Gavin Parker and Mark Dobson
2. Visions of Time and Conceptions of Planning: On the Central Role of Change - Stefano Moroni
3. Reframing Temporality in Planning: From Neglect to Opportunity - Thorsten Wiechmann and Gerard Hutter
4. Neoliberal Time Regimes and Time-Scarcity in Planning - Simin Davoudi
5. Between Swift and Slow Planning: Implications for Participation and the Case for Systemic and Multi-Temporal Strategies - Camilo Calderon and Amelia Mutter
6. Power, Ideas and Action: Changing the Timescape of the Irish Planning System - Linda Fox-Rogers, Mick Lennon and Richard Waldron
7. Timescapes and Townscapes in Reform: Property Rights and the Temporal Politics of Planning in Spain - Lucia Cerrada Morato
8. Time Bargains, Creative Adaptations and Public Interest in Local Planning Timescapes - Gavin Parker and Mark Dobson
9. Temporal Governance, Institutional Inertia and Delay in Portuguese Spatial Planning - Jorge Goncalves
10. The ‘Projectification’ of Urban Policy: New Development Times in London’s Olympic Park - Mike Raco and Sonia Freire Trigo
11. Taking Time to Expand Infrastructural Publics: Meeting the Ethical Challenges of the Anthropocene - Daniel Durrant
12. The Temporal Turn in Planning Thought: Implications for Theory, Practice and Place - Mark Dobson and Gavin Parker