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The material in this chapter is a temporary fixity of the author ongoing “gropings in the dark, experimentation, modes of intuition”, entangled in the oceans of complex post-structuralism or post-structuralist complexity. It reflects her theoretical genealogy through work by Habermas, Foucault, Laclau and Mouffe and Lacan and its recent rupture with her discovery of the potential for creative transformation offered by Deleuze and Guattari.
This chapter has regarded as a particular “direction in motion”; a multiplicity connected to other multiplicities, yet possessing a kind of stability or coding of information. It offers a Deleuzoguattarian-inspired approach to planning as speculation and experimentation, before outlining a multiplanar theory of planning as strategic navigation and some initial thoughts about the method: how might the theory translate into strategic spatial planning practice. The author non-concludes that spatial planning theory and practice will inevitably be anexact stories where the unexpected and the aleatory lurk.
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Hillier, J. (2010). Post-structural Complexity: Strategic Navigation in an Ocean of Theory and Practice. In: Cerreta, M., Concilio, G., Monno, V. (eds) Making Strategies in Spatial Planning. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3106-8_6
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