Interlacing Planning and Degrowth Scholarship

Ferreira, António; Schönfeld, Kim Carlotta von

doi:10.1080/02513625.2020.1756633

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“…This is to be observed in a number of urban regeneration processes and experiments across the world, where the obsolescence of the built environment is in many cases cyclically used as a means to serve the vested interests of the elites [38,39,55,56]. In line with this, a growing number of authors is alerting that planning is becoming increasingly bound to use innovative approaches to facilitate capital accumulation for the exclusive benefit of the super-rich [14,40,41].…”

Section: Innovation In Planning: a Most Needed Critical Perspectivementioning

confidence: 98%

“…For example, innovation has been positioned as essential for the economic growth of urban areas as they compete for limited resources [12]. This has happened without a serious reflection about whether innovation, and also urban competition and even economic growth, are desirable to address the problem of urban resource scarcity [13][14][15]. As a result of the pro-innovation bias, a growing number of authors and institutions have been asking for more technologically and socially innovative policies, technologies, and initiatives to be implemented at an increasingly faster pace (e.g., [16][17][18][19][20][21]).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles

Ferreira

Schönfeld²,

Tan³

et al. 2020

Urban Science

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This article argues that a more critical approach to innovation policy within planning is needed and offers recommendations for achieving this. These recommendations entail rethinking the values, focus, speed, and legitimacy of innovations. It takes a critical perspective on how contemporary societies treat rapid innovation as having necessarily positive results in the achievement of objectives such as sustainability and justice. This critical perspective is needed because innovation can both contribute to and drive a form of maladaptive planning: a collective approach to reality that imposes constant and rapid changes to societal configurations due to an obsession with the new and with too little rapport with the problems in place or that it creates. A maladaptive direction for transport planning is used as a sectorial illustration of the broader conceptual ideas presented: for both sustainability and social justice reasons, it would be desirable to see peak car occurring. However, the car industry is presenting driving automation as an innovation with the potential to restore the vitality of the private vehicles market while creating effective means to dismiss alternatives to car dominance.

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Section: Innovation In Planning: a Most Needed Critical Perspectivementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles

Ferreira

Schönfeld²,

Tan³

et al. 2020

Urban Science

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“…The non-market-based, non-capitalist approach (Lloveras et al, 2018) is reflected in practices such as freely sharing private space (De Castro Mazarro et al, 2023;Varvarousis & Koutrolikou, 2018), co-housing (Jarvis, 2019;Ruiz-Alejos & Prats, 2022), collective use of buildings (De Castro Mazarro et al, 2023), and communal or collaborative housing (Xue & Kębłowski, 2022). It is closely related to the features cooperation instead of competition, reflected in the practice of housing cooperatives (Ferreira & von Schönfeld, 2020), and other types of ownership and use than private or public, reflected in commoning practices (Ruiz-Alejos & Prats, 2022;Varvarousis & Koutrolikou, 2018), community gardens and other community-based facilities (Lloveras et al, 2018;Wächter, 2013), and, at the extreme end of the spectrum, the practice of squatting (Lloveras et al, 2018;Ruiz-Alejos & Prats, 2022).…”

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“…The "degrowth" movement presents a radical alternative to this approach (D'Alessandro et al, 2020;Mastini et al, 2021) and makes a plea for drastically downscaling economic production and consumption to achieve environmental sustainability and social justice and well-being (Demaria et al, 2013). Until a few years ago, degrowth thinking was not systematically applied to urban planning and development (Ferreira & von Schönfeld, 2020;Kaika et al, 2023). In the words of Xue and Kębłowski (2022, p. 397), degrowth "proponents are yet to reflect on the role of urban development and planning in the transformations they envision, outlining where, how and for whom the principles of degrowth could be applied in urban contexts."…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Shrinking City as a Testing Ground for Urban Degrowth Practices

Hermans,

De Kraker,

Scholl

2024

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To inform and operationalize an urban degrowth agenda, more systematic and larger-scale experimentation with degrowth practices is needed. The aim of this study was to explore the suitability of shrinking cities as testing grounds for urban degrowth practices. To answer this question, we analyzed two cases, both urban greening initiatives, located in the shrinking urban region of Parkstad Limburg, in the Netherlands. The cases show that in a shrinking city, with a large surplus of urban land and long-term vacancy and demolishing of buildings, there is literally abundant “room” to experiment with alternative ways and types of urban land use. There is also interest on the side of the local government in alternatives to the conventional approaches to urban planning and development. As both cases can be interpreted as “experiments with urban degrowth practices,” it can be concluded that shrinking cities offer ample opportunities for urban degrowth experiments. The lessons learned from the two studied cases are not very positive concerning the wider feasibility of the tested degrowth practices, but as experiments, the cases can be considered successful. This is because they provided a better understanding of the conditions required for the implementation and upscaling of these practices, also in growing cities. To inform and operationalize an urban degrowth agenda, we, therefore, recommend more research on cases in shrinking cities that can be interpreted and analyzed as experiments with urban degrowth practices.

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“…For example, learning from scholarship on alternative governance and management models, ideas of 'tourism degrowth', voicing the critique of (urban) over-tourism in popular destinations and selling cities as tourism commodities (Milano et al 2019). Or perhaps following Ferreira and Schönfeld (2020) to explore what it means when economic growth and capital accumulation are not positioned centre stage in planning. Furthermore, we could engage with ideas on commons (Ostrom 1990), the 'right to the city' (Harvey 2003), collaborative planning (Healey 1997) and community organizing (e.g.…”

Section: Environmental Justice: Beyond Sustainability and Climate Emergencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a more just world: an agenda for transformative heritage planning futures

Veldpaus¹,

Kisić²,

Stegmeijer³

et al. 2021

A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning

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In this final chapter we address the key questions we consider to lie ahead for heritage planning, when pushing new practice and research frontiers. We build on and take forward the points made in Parts I and II, as well as discussions with authors and other heritage planning experts in academia and practice. We touch on those heritage issues that we believe could contribute to a more just, diverse and sustainable world. With this agenda, we aim to enrich and inspire both practice and research directions by suggesting new, combined, continued and alternative perspectives on doing, studying and reflecting on heritage planning. We focus on conceptual and thematic ways forward, supported by methodological, governance and funding considerations. There are many angles to be explored, numerous ideas to be shared and actions to be undertaken. This agenda is but a small contribution. Heritage planning and contemporary challengesSpatial planning operates in a world full of context: tabula scripta. Developing spatial policies, plans and designs for the future always requires interaction with pre-existing conditions: structures, creations, ideas, uses, values, pollutions and other historic layers. Engaging with them can be seen as a restriction, or as an opportunity to work with the potential of place. We would therefore argue that, conceptually, all spatial planning is a form of heritage planning. Conversely, heritage planning cannot be limited to what is formally designated or listed. As also discussed in the introduction to this book (Chapter 1), formal definitions of heritage, as for example used in European policy contexts, have become much broader over time .

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Interlacing Planning and Degrowth Scholarship

Cited by 15 publications

References 56 publications

Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles

Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles

The Shrinking City as a Testing Ground for Urban Degrowth Practices

Towards a more just world: an agenda for transformative heritage planning futures

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