Planning against the political [electronic resource] : democratic deficits in European territorial governance / edited by Jonathan Metzger, Phil Allmendinger, and Stijn Oosterlynck.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The contested terrain of European territorial governance : new perspectives on democratic deficits and political displacements / Jonathan Metzger, Phil Allmendinger and Stijn Oosterlynck -- 2. Post-political regimes in English planning : from Third Way to Big Society / Phil Allmendinger and Graham Haughton -- 3. In search of the irreducible political moment : or why planning shouldn't be too hung up on conflictuality / Kristina Grange -- 4. Opposing the postpolitical Swedish urban discourse / Moa Tunstrom and Karin Bradley -- 5. Rethinking politics and the (post-)political through Deleuze-Guattarian micropolitics / Matthias Loepfe and Joris Van Wezemael -- 6. Impossible common ground : planning and reconciliation / John Plger -- 7. Hopeless postpolitics, professional idiots, and the fate of public space in Stockholm Parklife / Jonas Bylund and Andrew Byerley -- 8. Conflict management, democratic demands, and the post-politics of privatisation / Mike Raco -- 9. Planning as war by other means / Mekonnen Tesfahuney and Richard Ek -- 10. The moose are protesting : the more-than-human politics of transport infrastructure development / Jonathan Metzger -- 11. Insurgent architects and the spectral return of the urban political / Erik Swyngedouw and Japhy Wilson.