Regulation and Planning
Practices, Institutions, Agency

In Regulation and Planning, planning scholars from the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia, and the United States explore how planning regulations are negotiated amid layers of normative considerations. It treats regulation not simply as a set of legal guidelines to be compared against proposed actions, but as a social practice in which issues of governmental legitimacy, cultural understandings, materiality, and power are contested.

Each chapter addresses an actual instance of planning regulation including, among others, a dispute about a proposed Apple store in a public park in Stockholm, the procedures by which building codes are managed by planners in Napoli, the role that design plays in regulating the use of public space in a new Paris neighbourhood, and the influence of plans on the regulation of development in Malmö and Cambridge. Collectively, the volume probes the institutions and practices that give meaning and consequence to planning regulations.

For planning students learning about what it means to plan, planning researchers striving to understand the influence of planners on urban development, and planning practitioners interested in reflecting on practices that occupy a great deal of their time, this is an indispensable book.

Introduction.The Editors Part 1: VARIETIES OF REGULATION 1. The Documents of Re-Zoning: Planning Aspirations In New York CityRobert A. Beauregard 2. Planning Deregulation, Material Impacts and Everyday Practices: The Case of Permitted Development in EnglandBen Clifford 3. Malleable Categorisation and the Regulatory Process: The Case of the Apple Flagship Store in StockholmHoai Anh Tran 4. Democratic Debate or Empty Ritual? The Planning Hearing for Edinburgh’s New Concert HallNeil Thomas Smith5. Encounters with Materiality: Planning Regulation and Non-Participation in AustraliaBrad Jessup Part 2: PRACTICES OF REGULATION6. Planners as Brokers and Translators: On Regulation and Discretionary Power Laura Lieto 7. Artefacts in Dialogue: Regulatory Planning and the Search for Legitimacy Yvonne Rydin8. Creating Land Through the Regulatory Process. The Case of Brownfield Land in England. Sonia Freire Trigo 9. Stepping Up to Meet the Challenge of a Zero Carbon Built Environment Meg Holden 10. Regulation and Water Management in the Milan Urban Region: The Seveso Creek BasinMatteo Del Fabbro and Gloria Pessina Part 3: BEYOND REGULATION 11. Intermediary Organisations and the Liquid Regulation of Urban Planning in England Mike Raco, Frances Brill and Jessica Ferm12. Citizen Monitoring of Environmental Regulation in England: The Post-Consent StageLucy Natarajan 13. Regulation by Design: The Case of Batignolles Park, Paris Marco Cremaschi 14. When "the sensor gives them a voice": Representing Users Through Data Antoine Courmont 15. Land Banking Regulation as Rhetorical Infrastructure: Planning as Translation in the Muncie Land Bank, Indiana John H. West Afterward: On Practices, Institutions, Agency The Editors

Yvonne Rydin is Professor of Planning, Environment, and Public Policy at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. She works on a wide range of issues concerning sustainability and planning. Her most recent book is Theory for Planning Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Robert A. Beauregard is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University (USA). He has written extensively on planning theory and urban theory. His most recent books are Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory (Edward Elgar, 2020), Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and Planning Matter: Acting with Things (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Marco Cremaschi is Professor of Urban Planning at SciencesPo, Paris. His research insists on a comparative approach to large urban projects in cities, focusing on Rome, Buenos Aires, and Kolkata; the local development of weak economy regions; and the reception of refugees in European metropolitan areas. His last book is Culture and Policy-Making. Pluralism, Performativity, and Semiotic Capital (co-auth. with C. Fioretti, T. Mannarini, S. Salvatore: Springer, 2020).

Laura Lieto is a Professor of Urban Planning at Federico II University, Napoli (Italy). Laura is a planning theorist and an urban ethnographer. Her work focuses on urban informality, transnational urbanism, and planning regulation. Her most recent publications include "Star Architecture as Socio-material Assemblage” (2020) and “Planning for the Hybrid Gulf City” (2019).