Making the Invisible Visible

The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning.

Through a variety of critical lenses—feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial—the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. Some contributors uncover indigenous planning traditions that have been erased from the record: African American and Native American traditions, for example. Other contributors explore new themes: themes of gendered spaces and racist practices, of planning as an ordering tool, a kind of spatial police, of "bodies, cities, and social order" (influenced by Foucault, Lefebvre, and others), and of resistance.

This scrutiny of the class, race, gender, ethnic, or ideological biases of ideas and practices inherent in the notion of planning as a modernist social technology clearly points to the inadequacy of modernist planning histories.Making the Invisible Visible redefines planning as the regulation of the physicality, sociality, and spatiality of the city. Its histories provide the foundation of a new, alternative planning paradigm for the multicultural cities of the future.

The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously unacknowledged actors and the noir side of planning.

Through a variety of critical lenses—feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial—the essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. Some contributors uncover indigenous planning traditions that have been erased from the record: African American and Native American traditions, for example. Other contributors explore new themes: themes of gendered spaces and racist practices, of planning as an ordering tool, a kind of spatial police, of "bodies, cities, and social order" (influenced by Foucault, Lefebvre, and others), and of resistance.

This scrutiny of the class, race, gender, ethnic, or ideological biases of ideas and practices inherent in the notion of planning as a modernist social technology clearly points to the inadequacy of modernist planning histories.Making the Invisible Visible redefines planning as the regulation of the physicality, sociality, and spatiality of the city. Its histories provide the foundation of a new, alternative planning paradigm for the multicultural cities of the future.

CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
PREFACE 

Introduction: Framing Insurgent Historiographies for Planning
Leonie Sandercock 

PART I• HISTORICAL PRACTICES
1. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship
James Holston 
2. Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives on Preservation Planning
Gail Lee Dubrow 
3. Regional Blocs, Regional Planning, and the Blues Epistemology in the Lower Mississippi 
Delta
Clyde Woods 
4. Indigenous Planning: Clans, Intertribal Confederations, and the History of the 
All Indian Pueblo Council
Theodore S. Jojola 
5. Remember, Stonewall Was a Riot: Understanding Gay and Lesbian Experience in the City
Moira Rachel Kn111ey 

PART II• TEXTUAL AND THEORETICAL PRACTICES
6. Knowing Different Cities: Reflections on Recent European Writings on Cities and 
Planning History
Iain Borden, Jane Rendell, and Helen Thomas 
7. City Planning for Girls: Exploring the Ambiguous Nature of Women's Planning History
Susan Marie Wirka
8. Tropics of Planning Discourse: Stalking the "Constructive Imaginary" of Selected 
Urban Planning Histories
Olivier Kramsch 
9. Subversive Histories: Texts from South Africa
Robert A. Beauregard 
10. Racial Inequality and Empowerment: Necessary Theoretical Constructs for 
Understanding U.S. Planning History
June Manning Thomas 
11. Afraid/Not: Psychoanalytic Directions for an Insurgent Planning Historiography
Dora Epstein 
12. The Poem of Male Desires: Female Bodies, Modernity, and "Paris, Capital of the 
Nineteenth Century"
Barbara Hooper 

CONTRIBUTORS 
INDEX