{"title":"Do planners want to lead the New Urban Agenda, and are they being led by it?","authors":"F. D’hondt","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2022.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2022.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116966862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Horwood, Aude Bicquelet Lock, Sue Manns, Charlotte Morphet, Natalya Palit
Planning guides decision making about the built environment that impact people’s lived experiences and as such should include the voices of all those in society. Building on discussions that have been taking place in both practice and academia, this article focuses on the inclusion of women in planning. We draw on four research projects to explore the extent to which women are included within the planning profession and their needs met though the planning system, utilising the conceptual framework of the substantive representation of women as a way of exploring this. The article identifies issues with both the descriptive and substantive representation of women in planning. We conclude with the identification of further research needed.
{"title":"The substantive and descriptive representation of women in planning: analysis from practice and academia","authors":"K. Horwood, Aude Bicquelet Lock, Sue Manns, Charlotte Morphet, Natalya Palit","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2022.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2022.12","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Planning guides decision making about the built environment that impact people’s lived experiences and as such should include the voices of all those in society. Building on discussions that have been taking place in both practice and academia, this article focuses on the inclusion of women in planning. We draw on four research projects to explore the extent to which women are included within the planning profession and their needs met though the planning system, utilising the conceptual framework of the substantive representation of women as a way of exploring this. The article identifies issues with both the descriptive and substantive representation of women in planning. We conclude with the identification of further research needed.","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117179080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The persistence of gender inequalities has stimulated a renewed interest in feminist ideas. Running alongside the UK’s adoption of the gender equality duty, its planning system has gradually been co-opted as tool for neo-liberal spatial governance. While neo-liberalism extends and deepens inequalities and feminism seeks to eradicate them, there are aspects of feminist ideas which have been taken up by neo-liberalism. This article critically examines three examples of co-option, highlighting economic growth and empowerment, the recognition of diversity and ‘New Everyday Life’. The article concludes by outlining some radical changes the UK would need to adopt to ‘engender’ spatial development.
{"title":"Gender-sensitive spatial development in an era of neo-liberalism: co-option and oppositions","authors":"M. Roberts","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2021.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.42","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The persistence of gender inequalities has stimulated a renewed interest in feminist ideas. Running alongside the UK’s adoption of the gender equality duty, its planning system has gradually been co-opted as tool for neo-liberal spatial governance. While neo-liberalism extends and deepens inequalities and feminism seeks to eradicate them, there are aspects of feminist ideas which have been taken up by neo-liberalism. This article critically examines three examples of co-option, highlighting economic growth and empowerment, the recognition of diversity and ‘New Everyday Life’. The article concludes by outlining some radical changes the UK would need to adopt to ‘engender’ spatial development.","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125579415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The first generation of women planners faced a daunting climate in their educations, professional roles and academic posts. They experienced structural disadvantage, discrimination and marginalisation in a male-dominated field. Despite the challenges, women created spaces for solidarity and opportunities for collective action within national planning organisations. This article shows how American women kept both professional and substantive gender concerns in view while striving to make planning more equitable. While they succeeded at instituting structural supports for women and making gender a common topic of planning research, further work remains to empower women of colour and the most marginalised planners.
{"title":"‘We don’t want you here’: gender discrimination and women’s responses in American planning, 1970-1990","authors":"Brian J. Gauger","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2022.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2022.16","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The first generation of women planners faced a daunting climate in their educations, professional roles and academic posts. They experienced structural disadvantage, discrimination and marginalisation in a male-dominated field. Despite the challenges, women created spaces for solidarity and opportunities for collective action within national planning organisations. This article shows how American women kept both professional and substantive gender concerns in view while striving to make planning more equitable. While they succeeded at instituting structural supports for women and making gender a common topic of planning research, further work remains to empower women of colour and the most marginalised planners.","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121592614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper discusses gender planning initiatives from the 1980s to the 1990s based on the experiences in London of two practising planners when local authorities began discussing gender-sensitive cities and developed specific actions and planning policies, women’s committees and women’s officers in planning departments. The first experience in the early 1980s introduced women into mainstream discourse particularly through the Town and Country Planning Summer School. The second describes Open Sesame, a project in Haringey. These experiences are contextualised in the GLC promotion of women’s issues through their Women’s Committee. It concludes with a discussion of the current position of women in planning.
{"title":"Early experiences of women and planning initiatives 1980-1990","authors":"J. Morphet, Sule Takmaz Nisancioglu","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2021.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.4","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper discusses gender planning initiatives from the 1980s to the 1990s based on the experiences in London of two practising planners when local authorities began discussing gender-sensitive cities and developed specific actions and planning policies, women’s committees and women’s officers in planning departments. The first experience in the early 1980s introduced women into mainstream discourse particularly through the Town and Country Planning Summer School. The second describes Open Sesame, a project in Haringey. These experiences are contextualised in the GLC promotion of women’s issues through their Women’s Committee. It concludes with a discussion of the current position of women in planning.","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129389694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Ohlmeyer, Mathias Schaefer, Madeleine Kirstein, D. Gruehn, S. Greiving
An analysis of the provision and accessibility of urban green infrastructure was carried out and combined with the spatial exposure of social-welfare recipients to noise, air pollution and weather extremes in the city of Bottrop, Germany. We found out that social-welfare recipients tend to live in areas where the exposure to multiple environmental burdens is higher compared to other statistical districts in the city. Ultimately, there is a real impact of our conceived indicators, since they were integrated into an obligatory ‘sustainability check’, which was adopted by the city assembly of Bottrop in June 2020.
{"title":"Introducing environmental-justice analysis into urban planning practices in the city of Bottrop, Germany","authors":"K. Ohlmeyer, Mathias Schaefer, Madeleine Kirstein, D. Gruehn, S. Greiving","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2021.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.20","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000An analysis of the provision and accessibility of urban green infrastructure was carried out and combined with the spatial exposure of social-welfare recipients to noise, air pollution and weather extremes in the city of Bottrop, Germany. We found out that social-welfare recipients tend to live in areas where the exposure to multiple environmental burdens is higher compared to other statistical districts in the city. Ultimately, there is a real impact of our conceived indicators, since they were integrated into an obligatory ‘sustainability check’, which was adopted by the city assembly of Bottrop in June 2020.","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126952231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores exceptions to planning ‘rules’ as a specific form of discretion exercised by planners and decision makers. Theoretical and conceptual ideas on rules and exceptions to rules, drawing principally on administrative and political decision making, are used to examine the role of exceptions and exceptional circumstances in planning. This analysis addresses the interdependency between exceptions and ‘rules’, the circumstances in which planning decision makers are invited to consider exceptions to rules or exceptional circumstances, and the distinct forms of planning regulation created using exceptions. The conclusions call for systematic analysis of the role that exceptions play in different contexts and planning systems.
{"title":"‘The exception to the rule’: exploring the exception and the exceptional in planning policy","authors":"N. Harris","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2021.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.17","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article explores exceptions to planning ‘rules’ as a specific form of discretion exercised by planners and decision makers. Theoretical and conceptual ideas on rules and exceptions to rules, drawing principally on administrative and political decision making, are used to examine the role of exceptions and exceptional circumstances in planning. This analysis addresses the interdependency between exceptions and ‘rules’, the circumstances in which planning decision makers are invited to consider exceptions to rules or exceptional circumstances, and the distinct forms of planning regulation created using exceptions. The conclusions call for systematic analysis of the role that exceptions play in different contexts and planning systems.","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125698545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raphael Sieber, Lisa Faulenbach, Marisa Fuchs, Lisa Gülleken
This article gives insight into two research projects dealing with urban climate change that used laboratories in real-world contexts as a research mode. The article’s objective is to investigate the challenges we experienced based on a reflective comparison of the projects’ labs. Challenges occurred regarding the lab’s core elements, i.e. real-world experiments, the cooperation of scientists and practitioners (transdisciplinarity), the intervention methods (transformation-oriented research), and long-term character and transferability. We suggest that promoting constant communication and reflection, downscaling scope, accepting failure and going beyond the limiting conditions of scientific research may advance the concept of laboratories in real-world contexts.
{"title":"The challenges of co-research in labs in real-world contexts: empirical findings from four labs in the context of urban climate-change research","authors":"Raphael Sieber, Lisa Faulenbach, Marisa Fuchs, Lisa Gülleken","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2021.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.24","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article gives insight into two research projects dealing with urban climate change that used laboratories in real-world contexts as a research mode. The article’s objective is to investigate the challenges we experienced based on a reflective comparison of the projects’ labs. Challenges occurred regarding the lab’s core elements, i.e. real-world experiments, the cooperation of scientists and practitioners (transdisciplinarity), the intervention methods (transformation-oriented research), and long-term character and transferability. We suggest that promoting constant communication and reflection, downscaling scope, accepting failure and going beyond the limiting conditions of scientific research may advance the concept of laboratories in real-world contexts.","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116655789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The potential roles of rail transit investment have been extensively investigated in urban development and management processes. Applying the difference-in-differences model based on a longitudinal data set (2006-2016), this article presents comparative analysis of the surrounding neighbourhoods of four Tehran Metro Rail System (TMRS) stations in order to explain how neighbourhoods can be differently affected by the development of railway stations. The four areas include both high-income and low-income neighbourhoods. The results show that the northern high-income neighbourhoods and the southern low-income neighbourhoods have been transformed heterogeneously in terms of their sociodemographic compositions, housing characteristics, land uses and renewal.
{"title":"Do rail transit stations transform hosting neighbourhoods? Comparative evidence from high-income and low-income neighbourhoods in Tehran","authors":"Amir Forouhar, B. Zamani, Motjaba Rafieian","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2022.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2022.11","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The potential roles of rail transit investment have been extensively investigated in urban development and management processes. Applying the difference-in-differences model based on a longitudinal data set (2006-2016), this article presents comparative analysis of the surrounding neighbourhoods of four Tehran Metro Rail System (TMRS) stations in order to explain how neighbourhoods can be differently affected by the development of railway stations. The four areas include both high-income and low-income neighbourhoods. The results show that the northern high-income neighbourhoods and the southern low-income neighbourhoods have been transformed heterogeneously in terms of their sociodemographic compositions, housing characteristics, land uses and renewal.","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130282536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco Letelier, Clara Irazábal, N. Benach, Verónica Tapia
This article proposes a critical and complex reading of the configuration and reconfiguration of the neighbourhood (barrio) based on a comparative analysis of two case studies in Spain and Chile. Neighbourhood life is assumed to be organised around complex, open and dynamic relationships articulated in different relational geographies and not limited to a restricted space-time frame. We propose the concept of ‘relational neighbourhood geographies’, understanding it as an expansive and malleable socio-spatial field. In both case studies we observe that relational neighbourhood geographies exist beyond the limits of geographically narrow territories and can be expanded by constructing new geographies and territorialities. Consequently, the configuration of the neighbourhood is relationally conditioned by the forms and dynamics that weak and strong ties adopt in given spaces and times. The historical analysis of our case studies shows ways in which relationality is context-sensitive and how bottom-up resistance produces relationality. Although the importance of the relational is observed in both cases, their characterisation, intensity and complexity are different, which creates distinct capacities to produce territorialities and engage and impact city politics.
{"title":"Resisting the neo-liberal neighbourhood’s straitjacket: relational neighbourhood geographies in Chile and Spain","authors":"Francisco Letelier, Clara Irazábal, N. Benach, Verónica Tapia","doi":"10.3828/tpr.2022.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2022.10","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article proposes a critical and complex reading of the configuration and reconfiguration of the neighbourhood (barrio) based on a comparative analysis of two case studies in Spain and Chile. Neighbourhood life is assumed to be organised around complex, open and dynamic relationships articulated in different relational geographies and not limited to a restricted space-time frame. We propose the concept of ‘relational neighbourhood geographies’, understanding it as an expansive and malleable socio-spatial field. In both case studies we observe that relational neighbourhood geographies exist beyond the limits of geographically narrow territories and can be expanded by constructing new geographies and territorialities. Consequently, the configuration of the neighbourhood is relationally conditioned by the forms and dynamics that weak and strong ties adopt in given spaces and times. The historical analysis of our case studies shows ways in which relationality is context-sensitive and how bottom-up resistance produces relationality. Although the importance of the relational is observed in both cases, their characterisation, intensity and complexity are different, which creates distinct capacities to produce territorialities and engage and impact city politics.","PeriodicalId":266698,"journal":{"name":"Town Planning Review: Volume ahead-of-print","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126079575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}