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Power blurs the dividing line between rationality and rationalization.
The result is a rationality that is often as imaginary as the time in Little Town, yet with very real social and environmental consequences. The action takes place in the Danish city of Aalborg, but it could be anywhere. The reader is a firsthand witness to the classic, endless drama that defines what democracy and modernity are, and what they can be. The result is a fascinating narrative that is both concrete and general, current and timeless. Drawing on the ideas of Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Habermas, Flyvbjerg reads the Aalborg case as a metaphor of modernity and of modern politics, administration, and planning.