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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 2d ago

A new article by Veera Turku, Pierre Gauthier, and Ursula Eicker analyzes a Montreal-based case study to show how coproduction can result in equalization of power between planners and civil society. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond Regular Power Brokers? Exploring Coproduction as a Civil Society Strategy to Reposition Itself and Extend its Power in Planning

The paper explores coproduction as a promising approach for reframing the planner-citizen relationship on more equal terms. A Montréal-based case study shows how coproduction, initiated by a local ...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 2w ago

A new article develops and evaluates a method to apply justice- in spatial design practice. The method integrates the tricky conceptualizations (and potentially conflicting) of 'justice,' reflective practice, and feasibility of integration into design processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Justice-Oriented Reflective Design: Making Justice Actionable in Spatial Planning and Design Practice

This research explores how spatial practitioners can adequately apply justice in their work, without them resorting to a (false) universal conception of justice. To do so, I collaborated with thirt...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 4w ago

A new research article explores 'decolonial cracks,' the everyday planning practices that sustain Indigenous responsibilities to Land. The article includes stories of place from Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaiʻi, Canada, and Iximulew/Guatemala. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Indigenous Planning: Cracking Coloniality Through Everyday Practices

This article explores decolonial cracks as the everyday decolonial planning practices through which Indigenous Peoples navigate and disrupt colonial planning systems in four regions: Aotearoa New Z...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · last mo.

By distinguishing between trauma as condition and trauma as claim in urban planning, a new research paper by Lim, Niamke, Knight, Stephens, and Wagle shows how centering trauma may have paradoxical or contradictory effects. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trauma as Condition and Trauma as Claim: Advancing the Concept of Trauma in Planning Theory and Practice

This paper articulates a framework for considering the relevance of trauma in planning. Planners may encounter trauma as either a social-psychological condition or as a political claim, with distin...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · last mo.

🚶‍♀️‍➡ Walkability for whom? In their new article Kate Boyer and Sophie Jones explore how walkability is affected by street harassment, which is known to disproportionately affect women, queer/trans folks, and racial minorities. Check out the #OpenAccess article, here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Walkability for Whom? How Walkability is Affected by Daytime Street Harassment

While walking is recognised as being good for both health and environmental sustainability, the “goods” of walking are curtailed for the many citizens who experience gender-based street harassment....

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨A new article in PTP details a framework for conceptualizing conflict in street space transformations. Conflict is often treated as competing stakeholder interests or as disruption. This paper re-frames conflict as a site for potential learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding Conflict in Street Space Transformations: An Analytical Framework

Street space transformations are increasingly being used to reduce car traffic in cities. In these processes, conflict is seen to emerge unpredictably and manifest in various, sometimes unexpected ...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We have methods for evaluating the quality of plans, but what about their *legislative* quality specifically? A new article by Mia C. S. Greve addresses this gap by developing additional evaluation criteria for plans to meet requirements of legal frameworks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Evaluating the Legislative Quality of Spatial Plans – The Case of Danish Local Plans with Climate Adaptation Content

This article addresses an observed gap in the plan quality evaluation literature and methodology by developing additional evaluation criteria to reflect the legislative quality of plans. The analys...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✨A new article by Ying-Chun Hou analyzes her research fieldnotes through a feminist planning lens. Hou shows how feminist reflexivity serves as both a methodological tool and a critical practice for confronting gendered hierarchies shaping planning scholarship. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Reflective Planner: Using Research Diaries as a Reflexive Method in the Field

This paper examines the gendered challenges faced by planning researchers at the outset of fieldwork, offering a reflexive and holistic analysis of researcher identity, conflicting positionalities,...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A new article by Hung Vo @mitdusp.bsky.social traces how a career bureaucrat at USAID leveraged technical knowledge and bureaucratic literacy to develop an urban decarbonization program in an agency typically focused on rural issues. Check it out #OpenAccess here! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Critical Pragmatism, Bureaucratic Discretion, and the Making of an Urban Climate Program at USAID

This article advances planning theory by extending critical pragmatism to a development organization. It develops a framework for understanding how practitioners may exercise discretion and experti...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A new article in Planning Theory & Practice brings together theories of temporality (uncertainty, chance) with human and more-than-human actors to examine how planning of public space unfolds in the small town of Risør, Norway. Check it out #OpenAccess here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The More-Than-Human Planning Event, and the Emergent Publicness of the Hollenderhagen Public Space in Risør, Norway

The paper advances a more-than-human perspective on planning events and contributes to broader understandings of public space development. It traces the transformation of the private Hollenderhagen...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

💡How can urban planning education more effectively address Community Engaged Learning challenges and enhance preparedness for practice? Mor Shilon draws on relational thinking to mitigate some of the challenges faced in community-engaged learning in new article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mitigating Challenges in Urban Planning Community Engaged Learning: Advancing a Relational Approach in Planning Education

The article discusses challenges students encounter in Community Engaged Learning (CEL) classes in urban planning, asking: How can urban planning education more effectively address CEL challenges a...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨New article by S Yildiz “We Do Not Share the Same Timescales”: Toward Temporal Pluralism in Climate Adaptation Planning" shows cross-disciplinary engagement encounters obstacles around how time is conceived before productive dialogue can proceed. Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“We Do Not Share the Same Timescales”: Toward Temporal Pluralism in Climate Adaptation Planning

In December 2025, a roundtable of ecologists and planners in Chicago crystallized a recurring obstacle to climate adaptation work: “We do not share the same timescales with you.” This article argue...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How does leadership exhibit itself within planning organizations? A new article shows how planners navigate tensions, like information asymmetry and temporal mismatch, exhibiting both adaptive and strategic leadership practices, but often "under the radar." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking Leadership in Urban Planning: Administrative Practice Under Institutional Tension

Administrative leadership plays a critical role in navigating institutional complexity in urban planning, yet remains underdeveloped in planning research. This study examines how administrative lea...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In a new Comment for Planning Theory and Practice Victoria Morckel suggests additions to the AICP Code of Ethics specifically focused on planning research practices to avoid counterproductive and extractive relationships with vulnerable communities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Toward a Research Code of Ethics for Urban Planners: Moving Beyond the Extraction of Data in Vulnerable Communities

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Christian Lamker@raumplaner.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🌱It's growing! Three years & 11,600 views since "The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth" in @planningtheory.bsky.social (with Dan Durrant, Yvonne Rydin) 🛋️ doi.org/10.1080/1464... #postgrowthplanning @postgrowthplan.bsky.social

The Potential of Post-Growth Planning: Re-Tooling the Planning Profession for Moving beyond Growth

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A new Debates and Reflections piece by Elya Milner threads together conversations about privatization, ownership, formalization and regularization of informal settlements, and Indigenous epistemologies, asking planners to consider: To whom do things belong? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Property, Planning and “Informality Regularization”: A Comment on Research Agenda

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2026)

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣In a new article "Mapping Urban Innovation Ecosystems: A Tool for Strategic Spatial Planning" authors demonstrate how a systems mapping tool applied to the public transport sector may better inform and support strategic urban planning decisions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mapping Urban Innovation Ecosystems: A Tool for Strategic Spatial Planning

Planning decisions are frequently impeded by an inadequate understanding of complex urban environments, necessitating data-driven and creative strategies. Based on a developed research question on ...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🏙️Are photorealistic renderings in planning manipulative? Disinformation? Inspiring of action? A new article in PTP examines the functions of renderings within broader storytelling processes in urban planning practice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Selective Precision: Managing the Performativity of Urban Planning Visualisations in View of a Case from Finland

The performative role of visualisations, particularly photorealistic renderings, has been acknowledged in planning literature. However, how planners engage with them remains understudied. This pape...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨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....

Situating Equitable Infrastructure: Differentiated Cycling Planning in Mexico City and Toronto

The equitable distribution of infrastructure is a central concern of planning theory and practice. Developing an inter-urban comparison of bicycle equity policies in Mexico City and Toronto, the pa...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 8mo ago

💡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....

‘Together We Know a Lot’: A Reflective Case Study of Social Learning Through Participatory Action Research

This paper examines the social learning process among a group of community resident and academic researchers working together on a Participatory Action Research study exploring the relationship bet...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Everything Counts: Low-Carbon Neighborhoods, Carbon Accounting, and the Transformation of Planning in the Era of Climate Urbanism

Scholars have showed how an emerging climate urbanism places carbon mitigation at the center of urban policy, yet limited attention has been devoted to its ramifications for planning and the role o...

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Planning Theory & Practice@planningtheory.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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....

Engaging with the Multiple Temporalities Inherent in Participatory Planning

Despite growing recognition of time in planning research, few studies explore the role of time in participatory planning contexts. Drawing on critical temporal scholarship, this paper develops an a...

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