Planning and Social Control
Exploring the Dark Side
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23321978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oren Yiftachel (0000-0002-0138-6596, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Negev Center for Regional Development., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 395-406 |
| Publication date | 1998-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Planning Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-4122 • E-ISSN: 1552-6593 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/088541229801200401 |
| OpenAlex | W1991556914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 243 |
| References cited | 53 |
Theories of urban and regional planning have been deficient, neglecting to account sufficientlyfor its use as a tool of social control and oppression. The article argues that planning's well-documented progressive potential should be understood as being structurally accompanied by a more sinister dark side. It develops a conceptual framework within which the 'planning as control' can be theorized and studied, and by linking the public production of space to recent social science and Foucauldian debates on stateand nation-building. The framework delineates four principal dimensions: territorial, procedural, socioeconomic, and cultural, each with a capacity to influence intergroup relations. These dimensions should be understood as double-edged, with the influence of each potentially stretching between emancipatory reform and oppressive control. This article concludes by offering some explanations for the neglect of the dark side by most theorists, and by sketching a future agenda for a revised critical theory of planning.
Control (management) · Economics · Epistemology · Great Rift · Management · Neglect · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Population · Social control · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance
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| Unique citing works | 243 |
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| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 223 |