Social movements as ‘critical urban planning’ agents

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“…Allmendinger & Haughton, 2010;Haughton, Allmendinger, Counsell, & Vigar, 2009;Metzger, 2011;Metzger, Allmendinger, & Oosterlynck, 2014). In response to such observations, recent discussions in planning literature have suggested that the parallel upsurge in mobilizations of local urban publics could, if properly channeled, instill contemporary urban governance practices with a much needed "democratic(izing) makeover" (Metzger, 2011;see also, Haughton, Gilchrist, & Swyngedouw, 2016;Inch, 2012;Legacy, 2015;Raco & Lin, 2012;De Souza, 2006). Some of these discussions have drawn theoretical inspiration from the Dutch philosopher Noortje Marres (2005aMarres ( , 2005bMarres ( , 2007 who, in her seminal work on the nature of publics, brilliantly combines early 20th-century American pragmatism with contemporary Science and Technology Studies to radically rework conventional understandings of democratic politics.…”

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Placing the Action in Context: Contrasting Public-centered and Institutional Understandings of Democratic Planning Politics

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Metzger

2018

Planning Theory & Practice

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In recent years public-centered understandings of democracy have become important inspirations for scholarly debates concerning the democratization of planning processes. In this article we caution that an exclusively publiccentered understanding of planning democracy risks obscuring how public engagements in planning processes always unfold within the context of longer trajectories and broader landscapes of the evolution of democracy. In the article we counterpoint a particularly sophisticated public-centered conceptualization of democracy developed by philosopher Noortje Marres to the more historical-institutional understanding of Pierre Rosanvallon. By applying both analytical frameworks to an empirical case, we show that although Marres' public-centered approach can productively advance understandings of key dynamics in how public action in planning processes unfolds, its narrow focus on the 'heat of the action' in such episodes produces analytical blind spots with regards to the wider prerequisites and ramifications of these events. Therefore we conclude by suggesting that public-centered analyses of democracy in planning processes are at their most helpful when complemented with a more institutional understanding of the contexts within which public engagements in planning unfold. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Placing the Action in Context: Contrasting Public-centered and Institutional Understandings of Democratic Planning Politics

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Metzger

2018

Planning Theory & Practice

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“…The producers said that they expect to contribute towards much greater awareness of the selective character of inequality. Concerning the matter of real estate affordability, producers, instead, have redrawn areas of squatting and living without paying taxes as where people ' do have the right to exist', instead of what previously appeared there as an illegal zone designated by the state and the development sector (De Souza, 2006). This discursive strategy based on creating maps, tagging places according to issues, some of those in real time, has worked very well, according to the producers.…”

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Disrupting the Old Periphery: Alternative Media, Inequality and Counter-Mapping in Brazil

Levy

2018

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

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Media discourse on the periphery in Brazil has historically mirrored the country's socioeconomic divides. The periphery used to be where precarious dwellings predominate: a way of 'behaviour' of the poor, their social class, or an aspect at one's appearance. Semi-structured interviews conducted with alternative media producers based across the country have produced insights into many attempts to change a derogatory sense of the periphery through counter-mapping initiatives. Producers have geotagged their presence at the city's centre, contested the neutrality of maps, and appropriated surveillance images in semi-public spaces. While not an exhaustive exercise, this paper sees counter-mapping used to explore four distinct communicative strategies around the ethnic/racial divide, the cultural divide, the discourse of mobility, and the raising of awareness about emerging intersectional issues.

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“…In Baclaran, an inclusive and rights-based framework for urban work is vital to recognize "the legitimacy of urban informal economies, the scope for collective management of urban resources and the social value of public space as a site for urban livelihoods" (Brown, 2017b, p. 244). This resonates with ideas around natural market (Bhowmik, 2010) approach to street vending and the urban reform-oriented land use planning (de Souza, 2006), as mentioned in Section 8.3.1 above.…”

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“…Another strand of literature on urban governance has noted the key role that non-government organizations (NGOs) play in facilitating processes and championing the cause of vulnerable groups (Bornstein, 2005;de Souza, 2006;Etemadi, 2004;Shatkin, 2004). In examining the presence of NGOs in Baclaran, the findings point to their limited role due to a number of factors (see Chapter 6).…”

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“…Second, the post-dualist lens resonates with responsive approaches to informality issues. It would enable policy-makers to accommodate an 'urban reform-oriented planning' model (de Souza, 2006) in which planners examine spaces based on the broader social situations and public interest goals. This also implies being open to Bhowmik's (2010) view of public spaces like Baclaran as 'natural markets' 87 where hawkers offer goods to the public.…”

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Who Governs the 'Ungovernable'? Examining Governing Relations in Urban Informality

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For several decades now, Metro Manila's Baclaran district has been home to thousands of street vendors who have capitalised on its functions as a commercial centre, a transport node, and a Filipino Catholic devotional site. This presence of informal hawkers, which some government officials consider as an urban blight, has generated a range of policies that seek to manage, if not eradicate, the informal hawkers. Years of street occupancy, however, have enabled the tenacious vendors to enforce grassroots mechanisms to appropriate streetscapes. I refer to this interplay of state interventions and grassroots practices as the formal-informal interface. Seen from an urban planning perspective, the Baclaran context offers an opportunity for scholarly inquiry into how the complex spatio-political ordering and socio-economic realities unsettle the essentialist formal-versus-informal categories of work and state interventions. In sum, these findings reveal how understanding the formal-informal interface contributes to the evolving conceptual and empirical conversations on worlding cities. The Baclaran case shows how worlding practices arise from the interplay of global North-oriented planning ideals and policy approaches, the unequal socio-spatial relations, and the continuing struggle of marginalized street vendors in the global South. These issues require rethinking of policy direction and planning trajectory.iii

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Social movements as ‘critical urban planning’ agents

Cited by 137 publications

References 9 publications

Placing the Action in Context: Contrasting Public-centered and Institutional Understandings of Democratic Planning Politics

Placing the Action in Context: Contrasting Public-centered and Institutional Understandings of Democratic Planning Politics

Disrupting the Old Periphery: Alternative Media, Inequality and Counter-Mapping in Brazil

Who Governs the 'Ungovernable'? Examining Governing Relations in Urban Informality

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