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Planning as Profession in Uncertain Times
No full textChanging times, changing planners?
The early part of the new millennium has been marked by attempts to reform planning systems and practices in many parts of the world (e.g. Campbell, 2003). One significant
dimension of such efforts has been the suggestion that to transform planning it is necessary to transform the planner (Inch, 2010). In this context the planner emerges
both as a key to successful reform, embodying the promise of a new planning, but also as a problem, herself needing to be reformed to enable new ideas and ways of working
to emerge. This Special Issue of Town Planning Review brings together recent research on planners’ experiences and identities from within this context of reform, thereby
addressing questions about the changing nature of professionalism in planning, and its constitutive practices and relationships. The issue also places writing on planners
within a wider context of attempts to transform the state
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Narratives of power: bringing ideology to the fore of planning analysis
Full text linkThis Special Issue starts from the premise that the concept of ideology holds significant analytical potential for planning but that this potential can only be realised if ideology is brought to the fore of analysis. By naming ideology and rendering it visible, we hope to bring it out from the shadows and into the open to examine its value and what it can tell us about the politics of contemporary planning. The papers in this Special Issue therefore seek to contribute to established academic debates by exploring some of the ways ideology can be deployed as a tool in the analysis of planning problems. This article introduces the Special Issue by exploring the various accounts in the papers of i. what ideology is; ii. what its effects are; iii. where ideology may be identified and iv. what different theories of ideology can tell us about planning. There inevitably remain many un-answered questions, paths not taken and debates left unaddressed. We hope other scholars will be inspired (or provoked) to address these omissions in the future
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
'Cultural Work' and the Remaking of Planning's Apparatus of Truth
No full textMichel Foucault’s work explored the ways social practices are shaped by ‘regimes of truth’ that powerfully circumscribe what can and cannot be said, done and considered truthful at different times. In this chapter I explore how powerful truths associated with neoliberal and managerial agendas are transforming the disciplinary field and ‘apparatus’ of planning in Scotland. I go on to argue that a focus on the practices of ‘cultural work’ through which actors variously resist or adapt to change might deepen understanding of the political potential for challenging such processes and their effects on contemporary ideas of planning.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
‘Opening for business’? Neoliberalism and the cultural politics of modernising planning in Scotland
No full textIn this paper I explore how the culture of land-use planning in Scotland has been targeted as an
object of modernising reform, exploring how ‘culture change’ initiatives played a prominent role
in stabilising a new settlement around ‘open for business’ planning between 2006 and 2012, con-
taining potential tensions between diverse goals to make planning more efficient, inclusive and
integrative. This highlights the potentially significant role of governance cultures in containing ten-
sions and securing consent to processes of state restructuring. I therefore argue that greater
empirical attentiveness to the cultural micro-politics of state restructuring can improve under-
standing of complex, contemporary dynamics of change, and the contested role of the neoliberal
hegemonic project in reshaping urban governance. I conclude by arguing that the continued
power of neoliberal critiques of the inefficiency of land-use planning indicate a need to acknowl-
edge and engage contemporary cultural battles over the purposes of planning and urban
governance.Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Research Trust Grant No. 433info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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