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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Pub Date : 2021-07-20DOI: 10.1177/14730952211031017
Mona Fawaz
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Pub Date : 2021-07-02DOI: 10.1177/14730952211026693
F. Nourian, M. Alipour, P. Ache
More than half a century has passed since the first use of models in urban planning. Most urban planners have agreed on using models either to simplify complicated systems or to make simulations of such systems in order to predict their future. There is, however, disagreement on how far such simplifications and simulations have worked toward the planners’ goals and objectives. In this paper, through historical analysis, we placed the model-theory interaction into the broader scope of scientific modeling to develop guidelines applicable to the narrow field of urban modeling. Here, we developed an argument that models’ applicability and meaningfulness in urban planning are primarily dependent on planning theories, that is, models and theories should move parallel to achieve all the functions and capabilities claimed by models. Thus, an interactive process shapes the model as the mediator between the theory and the phenomenon: (a) the theory explains an abstract phenomenon, (b) the model provides an understanding of that phenomenon, and (c) the original abstract explanation is revisited and made more practical. This evolutionary process is our view of the “mediator model,” that is, a new definition of the urban model.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-03DOI: 10.1177/14730952211003535
W. Salet
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1177/14730952211014563
Jocelyn Poe
While planning theory has long acknowledged the profession’s role in producing racialized spatial realities, few have explored how place-based trauma shapes places and affects spatial processes and lived experiences. To fill this gap, I employ my experience as a practicing planner working primarily in Black communities in Jackson, Mississippi, to conceptualize communal trauma as a place-based theory that can help planners understand how racialized communities hurt and address it. In this paper, I, first, analyze autoethnographic data as trauma imaginaries, the intersection of spatial imaginaries and trauma. From this analysis, I then construct communal trauma as harm and wrong committed against targeted racialized groups so horrendous that it induces a traumatic condition. Finally, I discuss the implications for the field of planning. I propose that identifying trauma imaginaries as an indicator of communal trauma can help planners develop trauma remediation approaches that advance ethics and justice in the field.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1177/14730952211015633
M. Gunder
We celebrate the work and contribution of Michael Gunder, the previous Managing Editor of Planning Theory (2011-2015). Michael was a multifaceted planning practitioner and planning theorist who contributed significantly to the development of planning thought. In this short piece, three of us who have known Michael in different capacities have come together to remember Michael and his contribution to the planning discipline. Dr Elham (Ellie) Bahmanteymouri, Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand was Michael’s PhD student and subsequent colleague. Ellie introduces Michael and his life and contributions before reflecting on what his demise means to her personally. Prof. Jean Hillier, Emeritus Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne was a friend and co-author who has published several articles and a book with Michael. Jean follows Ellie in reflecting on Michael as co-author and friend. Prof. Angelique Chettiparamb, Professor of Planning and Governance at the University of Reading, UK succeeded Michael as Managing Editor of this journal and knew Michael both as a friend and her predecessor at the journal. Angelique reflects on Michael as a person and his contributions to the journal as well as her own transition into her current role.
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