Making The Invisible Visible: A Multicultural History; Author: Sandercock, Leonie; Paperback

Author: Sandercock, Leonie
Series#:2; California Studies in Critical Human Geography; Paperback; 14 B&w Photographs, 1 Table
284 pages
Published: January 1998
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0520207351

While the official history of planning as a defined profession celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, this collection of essays reveals a flip side. This scrutiny of the class, race, gender, ethnic, or other biased agendas previously hidden in planning histories points to the need for new planning paradigms for our multicultural cities of the future. Photos.Through various approaches - feminist, postmodern and postcolonial - these essays examine a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions. They redefine planning as a modernist social technology which regulates the physicality, sociality and spatiality of a city .