Critical scholarship often presents technical experts such as architects and urbanists as unidimensional “organic intellectuals” in the Gramscian sense. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted among architects‐turned‐campaigners in Lebanon, this article argues that this portrayal of experts is partial, and inadequate to represent and make sense of the composite coalitions that animate contemporary urban politics worldwide. This will be clarified by a close examination of the Hakmeh Axis Campaign, where architects and urbanists have initiated a vigorous civic campaign to oppose the construction of a motorway bridge through a historical neighborhood in Beirut. By exploring the politics of planners—rather than that of planning—the article will show the alignment between expertise and authorities to be a matter of political affiliation rather than natural necessity.

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超越有机知识分子：规划实践中的政治与竞赛

批判性奖学金经常向技术专家（例如建筑师和城市主义者）展示格拉姆斯意义上的一维“有机知识分子”。本文来自黎巴嫩由建筑师转为市场的活动家进行的人种志田野调查，该论据认为，专家的描述是局部的，不足以代表和理解使全世界当代城市政治生气勃勃的综合联盟。这将通过仔细检查Hakmeh轴运动来阐明，在该运动中，建筑师和城市主义者发起了一场有力的公民运动，反对通过贝鲁特历史街区建造高速公路桥梁。通过探索的政治策划-rather比的规划-该文章将显示专业知识和权威之间的一致性是政治派别而不是自然的必然性。