Pub Date : 2021-11-24DOI: 10.1177/14730952211042765
Holly Caggiano, L. Landau
The Green New Deal is arguably the most ambitious climate policy platform to gain legislative traction in the U.S. to date. A pioneering policy framework in its holistic consideration of climate change, social justice, and economic reform, the resolution would have vast implications for commons governance regimes if enacted. Planning theorists have long debated how to manage the global commons, and this paper adds to that conversation by assessing the Green New Deal’s theoretical underpinnings. Our analysis suggests that in practice, “top-down” Hardinian and “bottom-up” post-Hardinian commons theory coexist, as market and state-based interventions act as layers in the nested enterprises necessary for the formation of a polycentric approach to climate governance. This finding presents a novel theoretical perspective for studying the commons, specifically as we consider the influence of theory on developing policy imagination.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1177/14730952211043219
M. Westin
In this paper, I analyse the framing of power in streams of communicative planning influenced by American pragmatism, sociological institutionalism and alternative dispute resolution. While scholars have heavily debated Habermasian communicative planning theory, the broader conception of power across these linked, but distinct, streams of the theory remains to be explicated. Through analysis of 40 years’ of publishing by John Forester, Patsy Healey and Judith Innes – widely cited representatives of these three streams – a broader account of the treatment of power in communicative planning is established. The analysis shows that the streams of communicative planning provide distinct approaches to power with a joint focus on criticising conflictual illegitimate power over and developing ideas for how consensual power with might arise through agency in the micro practices of planning. Even if communicative planning thereby offers more for reflections on power than critics have acknowledged, the theory still leaves conceptual voids regarding constitutive power to and legitimate power over.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-21DOI: 10.1177/14730952211042737
C. Maidment
Planners in Politics, edited by Louis Albrechts, presents the personal stories of 10 academic planners turned ‘executive politicians’; politicians with responsibility for leading a portfolio, operating in a diversity of national contexts, at different scales and having arrived in their political positions either by appointment or election (or both). Albrechts states that the book’s aim is to allow the 10 authors to reflect on how their planning experience and background may have influenced decision-making in the political sphere, as well as considering how this influenced their teaching practice when returning to academia. The book makes important contributions in a number of ways, from a deeper understanding of the ‘black box’ of explicitly political decision-making in multiple sociopolitical contexts, following from Albrecht’s assertion ‘that political decision-making has its own logic’ (p.4), to heartening stories of the ways in which planning skills and expertise can be useful in navigating the intricacies of the political sphere. This review aims to draw out these strengths, but also areas where the book opens up questions for further exploration. Before getting into the book’s substance it is important to acknowledge my perspective as a UK-based academic and sometime planning practitioner, which had a discernible impact on how I read the book, not least given the (unsurprising) absence of a chapter written from the UK context. This is a perspective that I return to when considering the key themes, debates and lessons that I want to highlight. The first of these themes is the link between politics and forms of democracy, arguably crucial to positioning the book’s intellectual contribution.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-07DOI: 10.1177/14730952211038936
Chuan Wang
Numerous novel planning concepts have been developed in pursuit of better urban environments, while many are notoriously difficult to define. Lacan’s master signifier is widely employed to criticise these vague, fashionable concepts but lacks a specific examination tool. To fill this gap, this article develops an analytical framework based on Lacanian discourse analysis (LDA) to decipher the complex social relations in the process of applying new concepts to planning policymaking and practice. A comprehensive review of the UK urban village movement is used to demonstrate how this framework provides a deeper analysis, arguing that urban villages are understood differently depending on individual social positions, which, to some extent, determine their actions towards planning practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-25DOI: 10.1177/14730952211026697
Y. Beebeejaun
This paper takes the development of the British town planning movement as its starting point to explore a series of challenges for the discipline’s historiography. The emergence of the professional field involved the circulation of ideas beyond the metropolitan core to colonial territories with spatial interventions that were deemed both physically and morally beneficial. The paper explores the role played by the discipline in developing spatialized forms of ethnic and racial differentiation within colonial territories. I conclude that British planning has largely ignored its own historiography, including the colonial legacy, enabling the discipline to assert its role as a socially progressive profession.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-18DOI: 10.1177/14730952211032026
F. Chiodelli
In a recently published paper on Planning Theory, entitled ‘Asking “Third World questions” of First World informality: Using Southern theory to parse needs from desires in an analysis of informal urbanism of the global North’, Ryan Thomas Devlin develops inspiring reasoning about informal urbanism in the so-called ‘global North’. The author argues convincingly that the majority of academic literature on this topic is characterised by the failure ‘to critically assess the different purposes and consequences of disparate informal actions and the different political subjectivities of various informal actors. I am specifically speaking here of the differences between acts undertaken by the urban poor to meet basic needs and those engaged in by more well-off residents for convenience, efficiency, or creative expression’ (Devlin, 2018: 570). It is from this perspective that Devlin (2018) suggests identifying two categories, informality-of-desire and informality-of-need, whereby the former refers to informal practices originating from the ‘desires of middleand upper-class urban residents, and the latter represent[s] strategies to meet [the] needs of the urban poor’ (ibid.: 570). The difference between informality-of-need and informality-of-desire that emerges from Devlin’s analysis is both analytical-descriptive and political-normative. From an analytical-descriptive viewpoint, informality-of-need and informality-of-desire are factually different, primarily in terms of the players involved (the urban poor in the first case, and middleand upper-income urban residents in the latter) and the underlying reasons (need vs desire). However, the difference between these two categories is also political-normative in nature. According to the author, in fact, ‘while informality born of need has the potential to challenge dominant, exclusionary regimes of spatial
在最近发表的一篇关于规划理论的论文中，题为“提出第一世界非正规性的“第三世界问题”：在分析全球北方的非正规城市化时，使用南方理论从欲望中解析需求”，Ryan Thomas Devlin对所谓的“全球北方”的非正规城镇化提出了鼓舞人心的推理。作者令人信服地认为，关于这一主题的大多数学术文献的特点是未能“批判性地评估不同非正式行为的不同目的和后果，以及各种非正式行为者的不同政治主观主义”。我在这里特别谈到了城市穷人为满足基本需求而采取的行动与富裕居民为方便、高效或创造性表达而采取的行为之间的差异”（Devlin，2018:570）。正是从这个角度来看，Devlin（2018）建议确定两类，欲望的非正式性和需求的非正式性，前者指源自“城市中上层居民的欲望”的非正式做法，后者代表满足城市穷人需求的策略（同上：570）。从德夫林的分析中得出的需求的非正式性和欲望的非正式性之间的区别既是分析描述性的，也是政治规范性的。从分析描述性的角度来看，需求的非正式性和欲望的非正式性在事实上是不同的，主要是在参与者（第一种情况下是城市穷人，第二种情况下为城市中高收入居民）和潜在原因（需求与欲望）方面。然而，这两个类别之间的区别也是政治规范性质的。根据作者的说法，事实上，“尽管出于需要而产生的非正式性有可能挑战占主导地位的、排斥性的空间制度
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Pub Date : 2021-08-06DOI: 10.1177/14730952211037372
H. Shelby
This article theorizes the potential roles of the state in the urban commons through an analysis of a slum upgrading program in Thailand that employs collective forms of land tenure. In examining the transformation of the program from a grassroots movement to a “best practice” policy, the article demonstrates how the state has expanded from mere enabler of the commons to active promoter. In the process, the role of many residents has evolved from actively creating the institutions of collective governance—commoning—to adopting institutions prescribed by the state—being commoned. However, by comparing the work to two different groups of communities who work within the context of the policy, the article illustrates how active commoning can still take place in such contexts.
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