Trading plans

Abstract

One might think that architecture and planning are as far from the history, sociology, and philosophy of science as one could get. What could negotiations over construction in a wooden village in Tampere (Finland), contested parking spaces in Naples, and struggles over façade renovation in Mafia-confronted Bagheria (Sicily) possibly have to do with coordinating action and belief in science? As the authors of this volume illustrate through an exploration of city planning in twenty-first century Italy and Finland, a great deal. Passageways between science studies and planning studies are subtle and productive-as it turns out, they began almost a hundred years ago.