Virtual Special Issue Planning Theory & Practice

This is a time of great flux and unease in urban policy, society, and politics. Established international hegemonies appear to be shifting. The spectre of terrorism looms. Wealth and politics are polarising across rural-urban divides. Extreme weather ravages cities with increasing frequency. Rapidly emerging technologies offer great promise, but threaten to fundamentally rework urban labour relations and the very fabric of cities.
This year’s Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference in Buffalo, New York is on the theme of “The Continuing City: People, Planning, and the Long-Haul to Urban Resurgence.
It seems fitting, therefore, that the themes of resilience, adapting to and taking advantage of change, and hopefulness, take centre stage at two of this year’s major European planning conferences:
- The Association of European Schools of Spatial Planning conference in Gothenburg, has adopted the theme of ‘Making Space for Hope’.
- The UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference, in Sheffield, has adopted the strap-line ‘Alternative Futures for Planning’.
In the run up to these events, this virtual special issue brings together a collection of previously published papers which explore these pressing themes.
The below papers are free to access until the end of September 2018:
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Can We Learn From Our Mistakes?
- Heather Campbell, John Forester & Bishwapriya Sanyal
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Race and Spatial Imaginary: Planning Otherwise/Introduction: What Shakes Loose When We Imagine Otherwise
- Volume 19 Issue 2 (2018)
- Lisa K. Bates, Sharita A. Towne, Christopher Paul Jordan, et al.
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The Political Premises of Contemporary Urban Concepts: The Global City, the Sustainable City, the Resilient City, the Creative City, and the Smart City
- Volume 19 Issue 2 (2018)
- Tali Hatuka, Issachar Rosen-Zvi, Michael Birnhack, et al.
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Experiences of Participatory Planning in Contexts of Inequality: A Qualitative Study of Urban Renewal Projects in Colombia
- Volume 19 Issue 1 (2018)
- Ellen van Holstein
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Land use, planning, and the “difficult character of property”
- Volume 18 Issue 3 (2017)
- Nicholas Blomley
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Confronting collective traumas: an exploration of therapeutic planning
- Volume 18 Issue 1 (2017)
- Aftab Erfan
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Black-boxing the Evidence: Planning Regulation and Major Renewable Energy Infrastructure Projects in England and Wales
- Volume 19 Issue 2 (2018)
- Yvonne Rydin, Lucy Natarajan, Maria Lee, et al
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Resilience: A Bridging Concept or a Dead End?
- Volume 13 Issue 2 (2012)
- Simin Davoudi, Keith Shaw, L. Jamila Haider, et al.
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Radical Resilience: Autonomous Self-management in Post-disaster Recovery Planning and Practice
- Volume 19 Issue 2 (2018)
- Ihnji Jon & Mark Purcell
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Confronting the challenge of humanist planning
- Volume 18 Issue 2 (2017)
- Ryan M. Good, Juan J. Rivero, Andrew Zitcer, et al.
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(Re)constructing Informality and “Doing Regularization” in the Conservation Zone of Mexico City
- Volume 18 Issue 2 (2017)
- Priscilla Connolly & Jill Wigle
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The “deliberative bureaucrat”: deliberative democracy and institutional trust in the jurisdiction of the Finnish planner
- Volume 18 Issue 1 (2017)
- Sari Puustinen, Raine Mäntysalo, Jonne Hytönen, et al.
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The implementation deficits of adaptation and mitigation: green buildings and water security in Amsterdam and Boston
- Volume 17 Issue 4 (2016)
- Maarten Markus & Federico Savini