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STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI
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Publisher
FrancoAngeli
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ISSN
0391-8769 (Printed Journal)
1972-4969 (Online Journal)
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Journal Issue Number
2
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Journal Issue Designation
2
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Journal Issue Date
2025
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Full Title
The temporal organisation and practices of planning work: The temporalities of digital infrastructure, the digital infrastructuring of temporality
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First Page
180
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Last Page
204
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Language of text
English
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Publication Date
2025/12
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2025 FrancoAngeli srl
Main description
Digitalisation is having a profound impact on the relationship between time and planning. The temporalities of planning's bureaucratic infrastructure is being transformed through its digitalisation, introducing machine and network time and reshaping the relations between past, present and future. In turn, the temporalities of digital infrastructure has led to re-infrastructuring of planning's temporalities, introducing a new timescape wherein the pace, tempo, timings, time patterns and temporal modalities of planning practice have been reconfigured. Yet, despite the profound effect of digitalisation on temporal relations, clock time remains important in the organisation and work of planning given the centrality of time rules and timetables, and this will continue to be the case. Using a case study of the development and control function of planning in Ireland, this paper examines temporalities of planning's digital infrastructures and the digital infrastructuring of planning's temporalities, illustrating the ways in which the temporal organisation and practices of planning work are being re-cast.
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