Foreword
by Dagmar Schäfer | ix

Entanglements of Colonial and Postcolonial Planning:
An Introduction | 1

Census: New Hebrides/Vanuatu, 1967
Alexandra Widmer | 20

Charcoal: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1973
Emily Brownell | 29

COBOL: The Pentagon, United States of America, 1959
Benjamin Allen | 37

Computing: United States of America, 1949
Benjamin Peters | 46

Constitution: India, 1950
Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach | 56

Dam: South Korea, 1961
Aaron S. Moore | 64

Dodecahedral Silo: Spain, 1953
Lino Camprubí | 76

EMES Sonochron: Federal Republic of Germany, 1986
Martina Schlünder | 84

Famine: India, 1877
Anindita Nag | 96

Fertility Survey Workforce: Puerto Rico, 1949
Raúl Necochea López | 104

Fertilizer: South Korea, 1952
John DiMoia | 113

Grid: New York, United States of America, 1972
Robert J. Kett | 124

Hackathon: India, 2012
Lilly Irani | 133

Kishikishi: Belgian Congo, 1956
Sarah Van Beurden | 144

Land Parcel: Lebanon, 1990
Mona Fawaz and Nada Moumtaz | 152

National Budget: Sudan, 1946
Alden Young | 160

Orangutans: Borneo, 1962
Juno Salazar Parreñas | 168

Parasite: Liberia, 1926
Gregg Mitman | 176

Riverbed: South Korea, 2008
Chihyung Jeon | 186

Seeds: German East Africa, 1892
Tahani Nadim | 195

Steel Plant: Orissa State, India, 1955
Itty Abraham | 204

Surnames: Brazil, 1979
Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes | 212

Taxonomer: United States of America, 1923
Laura J. Mitchell | 220

Treasures: Palestine/Israel, 1979
Tamar Novick | 230

Water Samples: Treaty 8 Territory, Canada, 2012
Sarah Blacker | 235

Weeds: Laos, 2006
Karen McAllister | 245

Zoomorphic Wickerwork Figure: Australian Administered British New Guinea, 1908
Helen Verran | 254

The Planning Moment: Avenues for Analysis | 265

Acknowledgments | 275

Archival Sources | 277

Bibliography | 279

List of Contributors | 311

Index | 315