Making Use of Deleuze in Planning: Proposals for a Speculative and Immanent Assessment Method

ISBN-13: 9781138392809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str.

Gareth Abrahams

Opis

This book translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuze’s most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new, practicable planning assessment tool.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Assessments, Essentialism and Deleuze  1. A Problem with Assessments  2. Essentialist and Non-essentialist Assessments  Part 2: How to Make Deleuze Useful  3. Attempts to Make Deleuze Useful  Part 3: A Case Study of BRE Assessments  4. A Research Strategy  5. Methodology for Research Stage A  6. Theoretical Experiments: Research Stage A  7. Methodology for Stage B  8. Empirical Experiments: Research Stage B  Part 4: Synthesis, Discussion and Conclusions  9. Synthesis and Discussion  10. Conclusions

O autorze

Gareth Abrahams crosses an invisible line between theory and practice. He is a Deleuzian theorist whose publications push the boundaries of Deleuzian scholarship and spatial theory. He is also a practising, chartered architect who has designed and delivered a range of complex buildings across the UK from specialist schools to large office developments and from bespoke new-build schemes to highly sensitive heritage refurbishments.