Moore, SM;
(2013)
'What's wrong with best practice? Questioning the typification of New Urbanism'.
Urban Studies
, 50
(11)
pp. 2371-2387.
10.1177/0042098013478231.
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Abstract
Best practice is most often perceived as a powerful heuristic tool for the dissemination of innovation and knowledge. As such, its formation and acceptance is seldom questioned. The unquestioned compliance with practices labelled as ‘best’ however obscures the processes of typification that enable it – that is to say the cultural struggles, tensions, conflicts, collaborations, alliances and personal/professional justifications that prefigure it. This paper uses the proliferation of New Urbanism in Toronto to theoretically unpack the typification of best practice in order to demonstrate how the universal abstraction of this principle-based movement is underpinned by deeper, highly situated, constructions of aligned interests and emergent socio-political rationalities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 'What's wrong with best practice? Questioning the typification of New Urbanism' |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0042098013478231 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013478231 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | New Urbanism, best practice, typification, rationalities |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183997 |
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