In this innovative work Jean Hillier develops a new theory for students and researchers of spatial planning and governance which is grounded primarily in the work of Gilles Deleuze. Using empirical examples from England and Australia, she explores what spatial planning and urban management practices could look like if they were to be developed along Deleuzean lines, and suggests alternative framings for spatial practice.

Contents: Preface: the dilemma of a middle or the middle of a dilemma; Part 1: 'A Thickness on Which Shadows Play': Shadows of the future; Transdisciplinary shadows; 'Following the witch's flight': artfully introducing Deleuzoguattarian ideas; Part 2 Resonances, Interferences, Encounters and Connections: Sweeping the dust of fixities: reconceptualizing time and space in planning and governance; Land, rights, laws: legalized obliteration of spatial meanings, knowledges and beliefs; Woven, knotted and matted: entangled complex systems and non-linear dynamics of space-time;On justice between absence and presence: the 'ghost ships' of Graythorp. Part 3 Straddling the Abyss: Coming from the outside of thought: problematising representation as a step towards a postrepresentational theory of spatial planning and governance; Planning and governance as speculative experimentation: a postrepresentational theory; Multiplanar planning: crossing the threshold into practice; Turbulence within the flow; References; Index.