What's Love Got To Do With It? Illuminations on Loving Attachment in Planning

Porter, Libby; Sandercock, Leonie; Umemoto, Karen; Bates, Lisa K.; Zapata, Marisa; Kondo, Michelle C.; Zitcer, Andrew; Lake, Robert W.; Fonza, Annalise; Sletto, Bjørn; Erfan, Aftab

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“…For example, Lynch [20] recognises the emotional aspect through its link with emotions and mental maps while Ferreira [21] has urged that emotions should be presented as constructive drives with the power to positively inspire the planner to become a more competent professional. Porter et al [22] on the other hand have claimed that attachments to community members improve the ability of planners to understand and work with residents while Gunder and Hillier [23] have interpreted planning issues through a Lacanian psychological model which acknowledge the entire process of becoming and being a planner is typically associated with strong emotional experiences. These authors have provided a meaningful theoretical discourse in terms of acknowledging the importance of emotions within urban planning.…”

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Engaging the Senses: The Potential of Emotional Data for Participation in Urban Planning

Fathullah¹,

Willis²

2018

Urban Science

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This paper presents an exploratory study on the potential for sharing urban data; one where citizens create their own data and use it to understand and influence urban planning decisions. The aim of the study is to explore new models of participation through the sharing of emotional data and focuses on the relationship between the physical space and emotions through identifying the links between stress levels and specific features of the urban environment. It addresses the problem in urban planning that, while people's emotional connection with the physical urban setting is often valued, it is rarely recognised or used as a source of data to understand future decision making. The method involved participants using a (GSR) device linked to location data to measure participant's emotional responses along a walking route in a city centre environment. Results show correlations between characteristics of the urban environment and stress levels, as well as how specific features of the city spaces create stress 'peaks'. In the discussion we review how the data obtained could contribute to citizens creating their own information layer-an emotional layer-that could inform a shared approach to participation in urban planning decision-making. The future implications of the application of this method as an approach to public participation in urban planning are also considered.

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Engaging the Senses: The Potential of Emotional Data for Participation in Urban Planning

Fathullah¹,

Willis²

2018

Urban Science

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“…We do not want to contribute to this practice, to have the stories of Indigenous, Black, and brown bodies be another opportunity for performative sorrow. The work of sifting through this harm is also difficult because we all have our own loving attachments (Porter et al 2012) to different communities and people impacted by mass incarceration. We understand the harm in this system as real—material, spiritual, bodily—and so we know that our responses, resistances, refusals, and care need to be just as real.…”

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Planning beyond Mass Incarceration

Simpson

Steil

Mehta

2020

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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The policing and penal systems play an oversized role in shaping the built environment and budgets of cities, alongside the lives of urban residents. Law enforcement systems are also deeply inequitable with poor residents, and communities of color disproportionately harmed by the violences of the system. Planning’s contribution to the creation of durable spatial stratification in the built environment implicates planning in the class and race disparities in law enforcement systems. Planning research and theory has also supported this inequity by largely neglecting the relationships between policing and penal systems and planning. The articles in this volume address this neglect and employ a wide variety of core theories, methods, and methodologies from planning to engage with the relationships between planning and law enforcement. The articles are connected through attention to racial justice including analyzing moments where planning supported and produced injustice, and identifying opportunities to support greater equity, decarceration and even abolition where planning practice, education and research support the creation of systems of safety and care beyond mass incarceration.

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“…Such understanding of planners' everyday activities has been important in moving away from the traditional rational model of planning, recognizing that knowing and acting (Davoudi, 2015), as well as knowing and feeling, are closely interwoven (Westin, 2016). Although emotional dimensions of these everyday experiences are mentioned in some studies of planners' values, only recently has planning scholarship explicitly discussed the integral role of emotions in planners' activities (Barry et al, 2018;Baum, 2015a;Ferreira, 2013;Hoch, 2006;Lyles et al, 2017;Porter et al, 2012).…”

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Hear the Rime of the Fellow Mariner? A Letter to the Next Generation of Emphatic Co-Creators in Planning

Mladenović

Eräranta

2020

Planning Theory & Practice

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This commentary centres on the questionhow can we further develop the relationship between planning practice and academia? This question has been one of the central pillars of planning scholarship over several decades (Krumholz, 1986), but many would agree that previous arguments have not yet been taken far enough in action. Drawing upon the web of existing arguments for a closer theory-practice relationship, our intent is to unpack additional experiential dimensions of this overarching question that need to be understood in a relational manner. Any such understanding should be placed in the context of non-collaborative pressures in both practice and academia, and open new pathways for understanding structural barriers to their closer collaboration. To this end, we will start by explaining the demanding contexts that planning now faces. We then reflect on how planning in itself is a complex procedural practice. The central premise here is that planning is institutional, but ultimately a human action at its core, that is characterised by psychosocial dynamics that need to be accounted for. Advancing this argument, we will acknowledge previous reflections on psychosocial aspects of planners' everyday. Arguing from inference, we conclude that furthering collaboration between practice and academia will require understanding the diverse and dynamic experiences of planners whose everyday practices are embedded within complex psychosocial processes, distributed across various social networks and time. Bearing in mind these deeper understandings of planning as a complex and deeply emotional practice, we reflect on potential actions for developing co-creation processes that engage both practice and academia. Of Wicked Problems and Planning Complexities In light of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report (IPCC, 2019), humanity has to face the fact that wicked problems, highlighted decades ago (Rittel & Webber, 1973), still hang above us like Damocles' sword. We live on a limited planet, where resources are often scarce compared to current human needs (Raworth, 2012). Moreover, natural, infrastructural, and technological systems have a large number of interdependent relations, resulting in a non-linear and rapidly changing reality (de Roo & Silva, 2010; Sengupta, Rauws, & de Roo, 2016). At the centre of this existential understanding is the idea that multidimensional human ends are not static and fully defined, and that various groups have different needs, over time. Thus, transitions out of our unsustainable lifestyles require not only changes in the built environment and technological systems but, most importantly, in our behaviours and societal values (Geels, Sovacool, Schwanen, & Sorrell, 2017). However, this state of irreducibly high

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What's Love Got To Do With It? Illuminations on Loving Attachment in Planning

Cited by 33 publications

References 31 publications

Engaging the Senses: The Potential of Emotional Data for Participation in Urban Planning

Engaging the Senses: The Potential of Emotional Data for Participation in Urban Planning

Planning beyond Mass Incarceration

Hear the Rime of the Fellow Mariner? A Letter to the Next Generation of Emphatic Co-Creators in Planning

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