The Imaginative Institution

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Drawing on an in-depth critical analysis of Madrid's planning processes over the past century, Michael Neuman highlights a planning cycle in this city from preparation to implementation. He argues that Madrid's success in creating a positive urban environment is due to the fact that the planners created images as key tools that coordinated planning and urban policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Taming the metropolitan medusa; Institutional evolution and cognition: an overview; Planning institutions and images: a brief review; Planning, images, and Madrid's new regional government; The evolution of Madrid's modern planning institution; Urban planning and images; Continuity and change: the dialectic of institutional evolution; Prolegomena to a theory of institutional evolution; Appendices; References; Index