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- Adams, David, et al.
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Challenges, opportunities and legacies : experiencing the internationalising of UK planning curricula across space and time
- 2020
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Ingår i: Town planning review. - : Liverpool University Press. - 0041-0020 .- 1478-341X. ; 91:5, s. 515-534
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on interviews with selected UK planning academics and survey results from current planning practitioners, this article provides valuable and timely perspectives on how internationalisation is experienced by those within and beyond the immediate institutional context. Although internationally focused planning education helps planners tackle the manifold urban challenges in the global South, the article goes on to argue that relational approaches hold much promise for planners working in so-called developed countries, including the UK, to understand the diverse needs of different diasporic communities. Such knowledge is crucial to develop sustainable planning solutions in the face of uneven processes of urban development.
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- Ahmed, Nabeela, et al.
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Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university
- 2022
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Ingår i: City. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 26:4, s. 562-586
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We are an international collective of Early Career Academics (ECAs) who met throughout 2020 to explore the implications of COVID-19 on precarious academics. With this intervention, our aims are to voice commonly shared experiences and concerns and to reflect on the extent to which the pandemic offers opportunities to redefine Higher Education and research institutions, in a context of ongoing precarity and funding cuts. Specifically, we explore avenues to build solidarity across institutions and geographies, to ensure that the conduct of urban research, and support offered to ECAs, allows for more inclusivity, diversity, security and equitability.
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- Andres, Lauren, et al.
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Negotiating polyvocal strategies : Re-reading de Certeau through the lens of urban planning in South Africa
- 2020
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Ingår i: Urban Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 0042-0980 .- 1360-063X. ; 57:12, s. 2440-2455
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Practice of Everyday Life (de Certeau M (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press) has become a canonical text in urban studies, with de Certeau’s idea of tactics having been widely deployed to understand and theorise the everyday. Tactics of resistance were contrasted with the strategies of the powerful, but the ways in which these strategies are operationalised were left ambiguous by de Certeau and have remained undertheorised since. We address this lacuna through an examination of the planning profession in South Africa as a lieu propre– a strategic territory with considerable power to shape urban environments. Based on a large interview data set examining practitioner attitudes toward the state of the profession in South Africa, this paper argues that the strategies of the powerful are themselves subject to negotiation. We trace connections with de Certeau’s earlier work to critique the idea that strategies are univocal. We do this by examining how the interests of different powerful actors can come into conflict, using the planning profession as an exemplar of how opposing strategies must be mediated in order to secure changes in society.
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- Andres, Lauren, et al.
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Planning for sustainable urban livelihoods in Africa
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South. - London : Routledge. - 9781003014041 - 9780367856359
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores the role, success and failures of spatial planning in shaping African cities and its influence on livelihoods. To date, planning in Africa has largely failed to address the needs and livelihoods of the poor and struggled to address wider issues such as spatial and economic inclusion, health inequalities, future pandemics and climate change. Planning for sustainable livelihoods across Africa must consider the distinction between universal or more generic approaches to planning and the experience of particular places and people, specifically, accounting for the needs and practices of informal entrepreneurs. This chapter first explores how the legacy of colonial planning has impacted the segregation of spaces and hence of livelihoods, particularly those of the poorer communities. It then discusses the barriers faced by planning to address the informal nature of the livelihoods of lower-income communities. Finally, it sketches out the challenges that need to be overcome and how planning for sustainable livelihoods should thus be tackled in Africa in the future.
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- Andres, Lauren, et al.
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Planning, temporary urbanism and citizen-led alternative-substitute place-making in the Global South
- 2021
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Ingår i: Regional studies. - : Routledge. - 0034-3404 .- 1360-0591. ; 55:1, s. 29-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper argues that planning in the Global South needs to be embedded within a more complex and systemic framework based on understanding cities' functions and transformations, at both local and regional levels, whilst advocating for and incorporating informal and temporary dynamics. This is to differentiate between two competing processes: formal planning and citizen-led place-making, here considered as a form of reactive alternative-substitute place-making that occurs when there is no available alternative. The paper calls for a better integration of such impermanent, adaptable, temporary and alternative forms of place-making into the planning process for regional futures.
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- Bakare, Hakeem, et al.
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Informality and Temporary Urbanism as Defiance : Tales of the Everyday Life and Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 2020
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Ingår i: Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030617523 - 9783030617530 ; , s. 61-72
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of informality in African citizens’ everyday survival reflects the strategies and attitudes of citizens towards state plans and policies. This chapter dissociates the discussion of temporary urbanism from its typical Global North perspective to explore how this concept plays out in a Southern context, namely Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We look at the relationships between temporary urban settlements, citizens’ resilience to socio-economic deprivation, loss of trust in government, and resistance to neoliberal policies in such a context. The chapter begins with a historical account of informality in SSA in order to explain its socio-political construction in the present. We then explore how informality is addressed in its ‘temporariness’ as a state strategy to evade the realities of African cities or to avoid providing adequate housing. The overall argument of this chapter is that there is a need for attitudinal change in the political disposition to informality, which could help to recognise the value and permanence of informality in SSA.
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- Baltazar, Ana Paula, et al.
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Ituita : An Interface for Playful Interaction and Socio-Spatial Transformation
- 2019
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Ingår i: Built Environment. - : Alexandrine Press. - 0263-7960. ; 45:2, s. 212-229
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses Ituita, an interactive media cascade built in Congonhas (Minas Gerais, Brazil) that displayed residents’ perceptions of their city and sought to engage people in discussion, decision-making and direct action. It first introduces Ituita’s purpose of socio-spatial transformation, and how this focused on the design process away from technological development to stimulate dialogical interactions. It argues that representative democracy helps support capitalist interests and hinders direct action that could build a deeper form of citizenship. It then presents the development of Ituita’s ideals and discusses Ituita’s failures. In particular, it considers the need for a pedagogical process that could promote continuous engagement with the city. The following section of the article discusses how an urban interactive interface might trigger engagement, by means of autonomy, leading to a deeper form of citizenship, and how this might enable people to move beyond the political limits of representative democracy. In a brief final section, the lessons for practice are drawn out.
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