A Retrospective View of Equity Planning Cleveland 1969-1979

Krumholz, Norman

doi:10.4324/9781351309967-12

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“…First, following Dewey and Marres, we find that an issue can spark a public into being, but the converse is also true: recognizing a public can bring an issue into being. This follows more established approaches in planning scholarship and practice such as advocacy planning (Davidoff 1965) and equity planning (Krumholz 1982, 2011). Yet, more work related to the role of the politics of recognition (Young 1997; Fraser 1998; Coulthard 2007) would shed light on how the liberal democratic approach of Dewey might benefit from conversation with political approaches more in line with Arnstein's view of citizen power and even more radical traditions.…”

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Rethinking public participation in the smart city

Levenda

Keough

Rock

et al. 2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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• Smart city technologies do not necessarily increase the level of citizen engagement. • The idea of a public is a plural, emergent phenomenon that requires careful consideration by planners to enhance equity and participation. • Critical perspectives should consider the way publics are formed in relation to smart city technologies. In efforts to become "smart cities," local governments are adopting various technologies that promise opportunities for increasing participation by expanding access to public comment and deliberation. Scholars and practitioners encounter the problem, however, of defining publics-demarcating who might participate through technology-enhanced public engagement. We explore two case studies in the city of Calgary that employ technologies to enhance public engagement. We analyzed the cases considering both the definition of publics and the level of citizen participation in areas of participatory budgeting and secondary suites. Our findings suggest that engaging the public is not a straightforward process, and that technology-enhanced public engagement can often reduce participation towards tokenism. City councillors and planners need to critically confront claims that smart cities necessarily enhance participation. Moving beyond tokenism requires understanding "public" as a plural category. Municipal governments should seek to proactively engage citizens and communities utilizing helpful resources including, but not limited to, digital tools and smart technologies. This would allow planners to keep a "finger on the pulse" of publics' concerns, better identifying and addressing issues of equity and social justice. It is also important to consider how marginalized publics can best be recognized in order to bring their concerns to the fore in decision-making processes.

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Rethinking public participation in the smart city

Levenda

Keough

Rock

et al. 2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…A policy implemented by Mayor Carl Stokes (the first Black mayor of Cleveland elected in 1968) was an elaborate and controversial strategy to disperse underprivileged Black populations throughout the city. While influential local actors, such as the Cleveland Foundation, were strong proponents of Locher's mass demolition strategy, Stokes' administration developed a more nuanced approach-what the planning department called ''equity planning'' (Krumholz, 1982)-emphasizing population dispersion, limited demolitions, and priority on the rehabilitation of existing housing stock (Moore, 2003).…”

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Redefining the city and demolishing the rest: The techno-green fix in postcrash Cleveland, Ohio

Akers

Béal

Rousseau

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper examines the techno-environmental urban policy that emerged in Cleveland, Ohio following the financial crisis, consisting primarily of mass demolition and greening programs, we argue this techno-green fix is an urban redevelopment strategy in shrinking cities that reshapes these places into manageable islands of urban development. Demolition and green reuse accelerated displacement without gentrification in long established low-income communities of color while reinforcing the racial hierarchies in US property markets. We demonstrate how the unevenness of the demolition program mirrors earlier racialized practices while adopting the rhetoric and strategy of “smart shrinkage.” We show that behind its neutral and scientific ambition, this strategy targets the most disadvantaged areas of the inner city. The market rational of these programs reproduces old patterns of racial segregation in the city. Finally, we show that the “green” dimension of this strategy is highly ambivalent. If “greening” is publicly presented as a means to benefit marginalized areas and residents, it is also used as a way to transfer the maintenance of urban services to poor residents on the city’s east side, to erase urban spaces, and to foster market dynamics.

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“…The recognition that compelling theorizing does not necessarily entail theoretical innovation demands more than a mere reassertion of epistemological humility. It calls for both a reconsideration of the scope of planning within conditions of structured inequality and a rethinking of the practitioner’s travails (Krumholz, 1982; Laws and Forester, 2015; Throgmorton, 2000) as emplaced within that field of action (Fainstein and Fainstein, 1979; Foglesong, 1986).…”

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Unsettling planning theory

et al. 2018

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Recent political developments in many parts of the world seem likely to exacerbate rather than ameliorate the planetary-scale challenges of social polarization, inequality and environmental change societies face. In this unconventional multi-authored essay, we therefore seek to explore some of the ways in which planning theory might respond to the deeply unsettling times we live in. Taking the multiple, suggestive possibilities of the theme of unsettlement as a starting point, we aim to create space for reflection and debate about the state of the discipline and practice of planning theory, questioning what it means to produce knowledge capable of acting on the world today. Drawing on exchanges at a workshop attended by a group of emerging scholars in Portland, Oregon in late 2016, the essay begins with an introduction section exploring the contemporary resonances of ‘unsettling’ in, of and for planning theory. This is followed by four, individually authored responses which each connect the idea of unsettlement to key challenges and possible future directions. We end by calling for a reflective practice of theorizing that accepts unsettlement but seeks to act knowingly and compassionately on the uneven terrain that it creates.

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A Retrospective View of Equity Planning Cleveland 1969-1979

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Rethinking public participation in the smart city

Rethinking public participation in the smart city

Redefining the city and demolishing the rest: The techno-green fix in postcrash Cleveland, Ohio

Unsettling planning theory

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