Critical Urban Planning Theory
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Interrogating a colonial archive of an oil company town in Kuwait and re-imagining the intended narrative and audience of the documented history.
Revisiting the relation between planning and entrepreneurship is a needed focus in planning education, yet not an unambiguous task to address. The 11th Conference of AESOP Young Academics Network followed the theme “Planning and... more
This text intervenes in the recent debate on planetary urbanization theory. It brings together a post-foundational reading of Henri Lefebvre's social theory with the spatially theoretical notion of a `constitutive outside´. Initially, I... more
In 1969, "People and Planning, the Report of the Committee on Public Participation in Planning, was published in the United Kingdom." Commonly known as the "Skeffington Report," it marks one of the first official attempts to think through... more
Há vintes anos, assistimos em numerosas cidades do mundo a integração de dispositivos participativos de planejamento urbano no seio da instituição municipal. Estes dispositivos repousam no planejamento colaborativo, isto é, na consulta... more
"Urban knowledge is political" - Die Methoden und Erkenntniswege einer kritischen urbanen Forschungspraxis sind in letzter Zeit wieder stärker in den Mittelpunkt urbanistischer Diskurse gerückt und stehen nicht zuletzt durch ein Cluster... more
This article is concerned with the current developments in planning theory literature, with regard to its extensive focus on flexibility and process. When emphasizing the open-endedness and procedural validity of planning, planning... more
The aspirations and practices of the city's marginalized residents often challenge the progressive visions and theories of academics and activists. Residents' indifference towards participation in urban planning projects, their... more
The city is one of the most attractive laboratories of our time, and it is here that processes and ideas emerge to reveal the successive transformations in our way of thinking, building and communicating. Experience the City was a... more
E17 Motorway Landscapes proposes a relational and processual re-mapping of the E17 as it crosses the south of West Flanders in Belgium. Motorways are usually conceived, perceived and most often mapped as alien elements superimposed on the... more
This essay critically examines the relationship between hope and experience within contemporary planning practice. It has been suggested that planning practice fundamentally pertains to the 'organization of hope'. This may well be true.... more
In questo libro si affrontano i fondamenti disciplinari dell’urbanistica. Le misure della Terra, la tempestività delle decisioni, la condivisione di principi etici e di responsabilità in rapporto alla politica, i criteri di scelta di... more