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This chapter uses a case study of land-use change in Vancouver, British Columbia, to describe how the technology of zoning orders uncertainty about the use and occupancy of land, into a land-use standard. It seeks to build on recent Science and Technology Studies (STS) inspired planning studies of the materiality of the world of planning by exploring the many hybrids of land-use planning. After revisiting the STS interest in the production of order, the chapter frames land-use as a “thing,” and traces the many concerns with the use of land. In this way, the case shows how plans and procedures open and close the land-use black box and describes the challenges of two publics to the ordering of uses, users and owners of land through zoning.
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Marskamp, M. (2018). Politics of Zoning: Plans, Procedures and Publics in Land-Use Change. In: Kurath, M., Marskamp, M., Paulos, J., Ruegg, J. (eds) Relational Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60462-6_4
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