🚨New article by @tvlaake.bsky.social "Situating Equitable Infrastructure: Differentiated Cycling Planning in Mexico City and Toronto" dissects what is meant by 'equitable infrastructure,' esp wrt underserved populations and the places they inhabit. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Contributions by @awzitcer.bsky.social, Robert Lake, @wolf-powers.bsky.social, @akirarodriguez.bsky.social, Meg Holden, and Ryan Good
In this new interface collection, contributors articulate how they view the effects of nihilism on the practice of planning, the education of our students, and even the premise of societal improvement. A must-read, open access article! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💡A new article reflects on a long-term participatory action research project on urban development and community health. It describes how social learning occurs, and demonstrates the collective meaning-making behind their guiding phrase, "Together, We Know a Lot." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a new article "Everything Counts: Low-Carbon Neighborhoods, Carbon Accounting, and the Transformation of Planning in the Era of Climate Urbanism" Mohall and Magnusson trace the uptake of carbon accounting, and discuss the implications on planners' roles.
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📣 New Interface collection on Temporality and Planning. We need more intentional and critical ways of accounting for time (and how it interacts with space) in planning. Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Property regimes and climate adaptation. Check out this new article by @lindashi.bsky.social @zacharylamb.bsky.social that very suggests alternatives to guide planners' actions to challenge status quo ideas about the privatization and parcelization of land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Multiple temporalities and planning. Planners often deal with conflicting spatial conceptions, but have we under-recognized the role of differing notions of time? Check out this new article by Miriam Holst Jensen and David Laws to read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What causes gaps in strategic and operational planning? Check out this new article that analyzes the experiences of planners in Sweden, using residential housing segregation reduction as an example. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In this new article, Luca Bertolini connects "prefigurative planning" to ideas of experimentation, thus, addressing critiques that experimental urbanism fails to result in lasting change while also attempting to engage the utopian imagination. Open Access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Are planners learning to improve their plans over time? A new article by Maria Conroy connects the need for planners to incorporate reflection with the ability to learn how to improve plan quality, but shows how constraints limit reflective practices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Post-Growth Planning. How can planning efforts disrupt the growth system and initiate a just eco-social transition? New article from Romero-Martinez, Romero-Padilla, and del Castillo-Sanchez. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💡Soft planning. In a newly published article, Tuomas Ilmavirta analyzes how "soft planning" (discursive planning, temporary uses of space, and cultural planning) are used in regeneration practices in Helsinki, Finland. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💜 "What Can I, and Others, Do to Change Things?" Patsy Healey (1940–2024): In Her Own Words. Heather Campbell and Theo Lim have selected extracts of Patsy's writings in Planning Theory & Practice over the years. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In their newly published research article, Mens et al use three Dutch cases to illustrate how bottom-up urban development initiators create social value through self-organization in a market-dominated context. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In "Bioregionalism and Degrowth: Addressing the Urban-Other Divide" Johanna Waldenberger and Federico Savini propose a degrowth planning framework consisting of five dimensions that move us beyond both growth-based urbanization and the urban-other divide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In their article, "On the Cognitive Mechanics of Planning Judgment" authors Dan Milz, Meaghan McSorley, Shannon Thayer, and Curt Gervich illustrate how heuristics characterize judgments in planning by describing two examples from a planning process in NY State. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🥳 Congratulations to Harriet Dunn for receiving the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 2025 Best Published Paper Award for her article "Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent," published in Planning Theory & Practice!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In their new article, Cai, Gerrits, and Edelenbos analyze China's Multi-Plan Integration Reform (MPI) effort, which began in the 1990s. The article contains useful information about China's complicated planning structure, as well as the MPI policy implementation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Democracy as Lived Experience. In his article "The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey's Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy" @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social reflects on two major themes in Patsy Healey's work: democracy and epistemology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We have created a video abstract of Prof Forester giving a brief overview of the Interface, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwFu...
A new Interface collection edited by John Forester includes contributions from twelve planning practitioners, researchers, and educators, each reflecting on where they draw their inspiration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Structure and agency in property markets. In another contribution in our SI honoring the impact and legacy of Patsy Healey, Andre Legarza picks up on "Healey’s call for a robust framework to understand the character of property markets and urban change." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As part of the Planning Research Matters series on housing, a collection of papers explores how community-led housing can help solve the unaffordable housing crisis on both sides of the Atlantic:
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Interface is a free-to-access section within @planningtheory.bsky.social
"Here, we knew her as the 'can-do academic,' " writes David Bull, retired Director of Planning and Transportation in Wooler, UK, on Patsy Healey. Bull remembers Patsy in our special issue dedicated her life and contributions to the planning field www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
As part of a special issue of Planning Theory and Practice remembering and reflecting on the life and work of Patsy Healey, Prof Bish Sanyal @mitdusp.bsky.social has contributed a reflection on how Healey saw the universal and the contingent in planning theory: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Looking for sessions to attend at the International Conference on Urban Affairs @uaanews.bsky.social next week April 15 - 19 in Vancouver, BC? Check out the sessions of these recent Planning Theory & Practice authors!
📖 Pragmatic Spatial Planning. Nicolas Paquet reviews Charlie Hoch's 2019 book Pragmatic Spatial Planning: Practical Theory for Professionals, which is an update to the pragmatist ideas of Dewey, James, and Pierce. Paquet describes the book's contributions here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Buitelaar, Lebbing, van den Hurk, and van Karnenbeek show how through zoning, developers engage in ‘institutional entrepreneurship,’ shaping the complex and mutual relationship between planning decisions and developers’ strategies in Utrecht, Netherlands. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Does urban science -- using computational methods & data analysis to address urban planning challenges -- perpetuate historical racial inequities & if so, how could we realize a reparative urban science? Wonyoung So explores in an article for @planningtheory.bsky.social. More: bit.ly/soReparative...
