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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction to the New Normal in Planning, Governance, and Participation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Emerging Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Planning, Governance, and Participation -- 1.2.1 Planning -- 1.2.2 Governance -- 1.2.3 Participation -- 1.3 Framing Directions of the New Normal -- References -- Part I Theoretical Framings of the New Normal -- 2 Theorizing Public Participation in Urban Governance. Toward a New Normal Planning -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Planning, Knowledge, and Participation -- 2.2.1 Public Participation as a Way of Knowing -- 2.3 Knowledge Deliberation in Aalborg -- 2.3.1 Knowing-Through Sensor Technologies -- 2.3.2 Knowing-Through Digital Participatory GIS -- 2.3.3 Knowing-With Neighborhood Councils -- 2.3.4 Knowing-With Experts -- 2.3.5 Knowing-With Public Planners -- 2.3.6 Knowing-Through Education -- 2.4 Final Reflections on the New Normal -- References -- 3 Planning-The Force of Working Unfinished -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Conflict and Agonism -- 3.3 Governing, Conflict, Contingency -- 3.4 Democratic Deficit and Planning -- 3.5 Decision and Future-De-cision -- 3.6 How to Act Unfinished? -- 3.7 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Building on Recent Experiences and Participatory Planning in Serbia: Toward a New Normal -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Contextualizing Participatory Planning Through Critical Pragmatism -- 4.3 Research Method -- 4.4 Narratives of the "Culture of Practice" -- 4.5 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 5 Building the Buzz in Blakelaw: Re-Igniting the Public Realm of Britain's Peripheral Urban Estates in the New Normal -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Towards a More Experimental Approach in Urban Studies -- 5.3 The Local Context: Marginality and Left-Behind Places -- 5.4 Conclusions and Steps Forward -- References.

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future. It argues that the pandemic and post-pandemic periods, in their successive waves of restrictions and social distancing, have disrupted normal practices but have also contributed to shaping a new normal. The new normal is emerging, re-configuring, and prioritizing the substantive objects of planning and its governance and participatory processes. This book discusses this shift and presents a collection of episodes and cases from diverse European urban contexts to develop a new vocabulary for describing and addressing challenges, models, perspectives, and imaginaries that contribute to defining the new normal. The book is aimed at scholars interested in urban planning, sociology, geography, anthropology, art, economy, technology studies, design studies, and political science. .