ABSTRACT
We know little about how urban planners and designers actually go about the deconstruction of place and the narrative construction of sites. We do know that intervention cannot occur, development cannot happen, until the site is brought under control, situated in a professional discourse. To arrive there, prior narratives are reduced in number or, in some instances, totally eliminated. Emboldened by simplification and standardization, analytical description thrives. Such representations cast a particular place in terms of a category of “problems” that the professional knows how to solve.36
