ABSTRACT
Regulation both initiates change and creates stability; it is both rhetorical and infrastructural. In the case that follows, this chapter shows planners as part of socio-material assemblages that implement laws by translating them into written regulations. As actors within assemblages, planning and regulation are both indeterminate, with their creativity challenging conceptions of regulation as a command-and-control imposition of government. Regulations, in this case, enable a local quasi-governmental agency to act. This chapter examines a particularly weak law, land banking legislation, passed by the State of Indiana in 2016 and the effort required to start a land bank in Muncie, a local municipality in the State of Indiana (USA).
