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Planning is a culturally specific practice that renders general ideas of the future concrete and projects the future as manageable. The chapter fleshes out an interdisciplinary approach to planning and surveys historical contexts from antiquity to the twentieth century.
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Obertreis, J. (2019). Planning. In: Paul, H. (eds) Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_34
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