ABSTRACT
Spatial planning theory and practice have traditionally claimed guardianship of urban representation (Vigar et al., 2005: 1407). As Bertolini (2006a) suggests, the key method which spatial planners have to influence the transformation of space is the production and deployment of information; that is, representation. Such representations have traditionally been regarded as value-free and objective. Until the beginning of the twenty-first century, the discipline of planning appeared to have fought off successfully a sense of contingency and situatedness from fields such as cultural geography and sociology, inspired by French philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze.
