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Desiring Docklands: Deleuze and Urban Planning Discourse

University of New England, Australia, stephen.wood{at}une.edu.au

This article examines fundamental changes in the form and content of Melbourne Docklands planning discourse, between 1989 and 2003, which would seem to represent a radical departure from planning's `normal paradigm'. It draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to provide an account of these changes, showing how the planning process moved from a grounding in site, history and community, through an unbounded, ungrounded and dream-like phase of `deterritorialization', to a phase of `reterritorialization' with the production of new identities and desires. It concludes by considering what this analysis entails for understandings of urban planning practice; planning's relationship to capital and desire; the exercise of power in planning; the `discursive turn' in urban studies; and the relevance to planning of Deleuze and Guattari's privileging of `immanence' over `transcendence'.

Key Words: capital • control power • Deleuze and Guattari • desire • discourse • immanence

Planning Theory, Vol. 8, No. 2, 191-216 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1473095209102234


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