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State Planning
An annotated collection of 1 books on state planning, spanning 1998. Featuring works by James C. Scott — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott, 1998 · Yale University Press
Scott's central concept is legibility: states simplify complex local realities into standardised categories (surnames, cadastral maps, planned cities) in order to govern them, and most large-scale failures of planning fo…