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Urban Planning as a Trading Zone

Part of the book series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives ((URBANLAND,volume 13))

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One might think that architecture and planning are as far from the history, sociology, and philosophy of science as one could get. What could negotiations over construction in a wooden village in Tampere (Finland), contested parking spaces in Naples, and struggles over façade renovation in Mafia-confronted Bagheria (Sicily) possibly have to do with coordinating action and belief in science? As the authors of this volume illustrate through an exploration of city planning in twenty-first century Italy and Finland, a great deal. Passageways between science studies and planning studies are subtle and productive—as it turns out, they began almost a hundred years ago.

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  1. Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Peter Galison

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  1. , Department of Architecture and Urban Stu, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan, 20133, Italy

    Alessandro Balducci

  2. , Department of Real Estate, Planning and, Aalto University, Lämpömiehenkuja 2, Espoo, 00076, Finland

    Raine Mäntysalo

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Galison, P. (2013). Trading Plans. In: Balducci, A., Mäntysalo, R. (eds) Urban Planning as a Trading Zone. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5854-4_13

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