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Author: Roberto Rocco ,
Gabriel Silvestre
Publisher: Agenda Publishing
Imprint: Agenda Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
ISBN: 9781788216760
ISBN 10: 1788216768
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 23 April 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Since the 1960s, there were pressing pleas and cries to incorporate citizen participation in urban planning. Nowadays, most of the participatory planning attempts, when allowed by the powerholders, have been critically assessed as limited, flawed or even manipulative. This volume opens our eyes and invites to examine these contradictions. The 'insurgent' standpoint helps the authors explore various rich forms of collaboration between planners, scholars, activists and citizens worldwide, especially when challenging the rule of capital and technocrats. Rather than a focus on 'heroic planners', readers will find valuable lessons from practices and processes that contributed to the emancipation of the oppressed once they took the tools of urban planning in their own hands. -- Miguel A. Martínez, Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology, University of Uppsala
Since the 1960s, there were pressing pleas and cries to incorporate citizen participation in urban planning. Nowadays, most of the participatory planning attempts, when allowed by the powerholders, have been critically assessed as limited, flawed or even manipulative. This volume opens our eyes and invites to examine these contradictions. The 'insurgent' standpoint helps the authors explore various rich forms of collaboration between planners, scholars, activists and citizens worldwide, especially when challenging the rule of capital and technocrats. Rather than a focus on 'heroic planners', readers will find valuable lessons from practices and processes that contributed to the emancipation of the oppressed once they took the tools of urban planning in their own hands. -- Miguel A. Martínez, Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology, University of Uppsala If there were ever any doubts that there are 'alternatives' to the neoliberal order, this book helps to revoke them. Inspired by the work of Faranak Miraftab, the contributors provide a rich and diverse set of examples of insurgent planning in both Global North and South. Instead of dwelling on the theoretical coherence of the concept, they offer inspiring cases of how insurgent planning works in particular social contexts. For the planning scholars, practitioners and educators who aspire to prefigure alternative modes of practice, this book is essential reading. It shows that the so-called 'realities' of our time are not how things are, but how they are made to be, and how they can be unmade through disruptive politics of insurgent planning. -- Simin Davoudi, Chair of Town Planning, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, and Co-Director of Centre for Researching Cities, Newcastle University, UK
Author Information
Roberto Rocco is Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanisation (2019). Gabriel Silvestre is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University.
