| Description |
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Morality and society |
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Morality and society.
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| Contents |
Map of Downtown Aalborg -- 1. In Some Remote Corner of the Universe -- 2. The Aalborg Project -- 3. Bacon and Nietzsche Come to Northern Jutland -- 4. Power Defines Reality -- 5. Rationality as Frozen Politics -- 6. The Rationality of Resistance -- 7. The Weakness of the Better Argument -- 8. The Longue Duree of Power -- 9. Rationality in the Context of Power -- 10. Interpretation over Truth -- 11. Antagonistic Reactions at Play -- 12. Farewell to Reason -- 13. The Dream Plan -- 14. Knowledge Kills Action -- 15. Minutiae Matter -- 16. Myths Die Hard -- 17. Exit the Innovators -- 18. A Single Drama...with an Endless Play of Dominations -- 19. Reality Check -- 20. Power Has a Rationality That Rationality Does Not Know -- App. A. Main Actors in the Aalborg Project -- App. B. Chronology of the Aalborg Project -- App. C. Elements in the Original Aalborg Project |
| Summary |
The Danish town of Aalborg is to Flyvbjerg what Florence was to Machiavelli: a laboratory for understanding the real workings of power and what they mean for our more general concerns of social and political organization. Politics, administration, and planning are examined in ways that allow a rare, in-depth understanding. The reader witnesses, firsthand, the classic and endless drama which defines what modernity and democracy are and can be |
| Notes |
Translation of: Case-baseret studie af planlaegning, politik og modernitet |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Denmark -- Ålborg.
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Democracy -- Denmark -- ÃÂlborg
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Power (Social sciences)
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| SUBJECT |
Ålborg (Denmark) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018849 -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436
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| Author |
Sampson, Steven.
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| LC no. |
97017204 |
| ISBN |
0226254496 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226254518 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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