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'Silent Spring' by Rachel Carson is reviewed. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is reviewed.

In this paper, we explore the importance of silence in planning, an endeavor we deem relevant in an era where communication and planning are seen as nearly equivalent. We investigate the meanings and functions of silence in the interpretation of plans, planned space and the planning process. We distinguish silence in the literal sense, as absence of sound, and metaphorical silence, representing other forms of absence: of other voices, of oppressed discourse, of intentionality. The paradoxical nature of silence, as potential fullness and emptiness of meaning, increases complexity and unpredictability in the interpretation of space, plans and the planning process. It is argued that a process of participatory planning, including many actors, documents and interpretations of space, necessarily multiplies the ambiguities introduced by silence. This creates steering problems for planners, but it also introduces openness and flexibility. Silence can have the positive function of stretching up the interpretations of space, plans and the process.

Reflects on the ecopolitical implications of Adorno's writings about natural beauty, the pre-conceptual, & silence as aesthetic response. Adorno's notions are then linked to those put forth by Shierry Weber Nicholsen, who argues that a tension marks our environmental attitudes between feeling a bond with nature & indifference to its destruction. Our interest should lie less in how nature's beauty may render us mute than in how silences serve to evade responsibility for -- & complicity with -- environmental destruction. K. Coddon

As usual in Iran, it's the women who are at the sharp end of musical censorship