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    The temporal organisation and practices of planning work: The temporalities of digital infrastructure, the digital infrastructuring of temporality


    Kitchin, Rob, Davret, Juliette, Maria Kayanan, Carla and Mutter, Samuel (2025) The temporal organisation and practices of planning work: The temporalities of digital infrastructure, the digital infrastructuring of temporality. Studi Organizzativi (2). pp. 180-204. ISSN 0391-8769

    Abstract

    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.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: planning; temporality; infrastructure; digitalisation; digital technologies; artificial intelligence;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
    Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI
    Item ID: 21131
    Identification Number: 10.3280/SO2025-002008
    Depositing User: Prof. Rob Kitchin
    Date Deposited: 21 Jan 2026 16:12
    Journal or Publication Title: Studi Organizzativi
    Publisher: FrancoAngeli
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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