Activist planning: a response to the woes of neo-liberalism?

Sager, Tore

doi:10.1080/09654313.2016.1168784

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“…It is at the very heart of most normative issues of planning today. With regard to the idea of multiple land use serving both investment and livelihood, Sager shows that many planners have adopted an activist stance by finding ways of promoting planning outside the regular channels (Sager, 2016). Such an approach can be followed if the regular channels do not provide sufficient ground for promoting issues of living quality for people in the area, for example, if planning does not provide multiple land use, but is dominated by investors' interests.…”

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Multiple land use planning for living places and investments spaces

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2019

European Planning Studies

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Planning is assessed not only based on its ability to improve the living environment through place making, but also based on its role in facilitating investments in the built environment. This paper approaches the combination of these functions as planning for multiple land use. Contracts, rather than plans, are used to bridge these functions. This concept of multiple land use is used to reflect on the contributions in this special issue on regulation of private sector involvement and property market dynamics in urban development. Questions for further research are raised based on the concepts of legitimacy, effectiveness and efficiency. These questions can also be used to assess current planning practice in which private sector investment and place making are combined.

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Multiple land use planning for living places and investments spaces

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2019

European Planning Studies

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“…Some of them contain an element of insurgency. Reasonably well-functioning democracies should put more emphasis on the critical-alternative initiatives of Table 1 (Sager 2016(Sager :1272. Such planning-based protests against particular policies are part of the normal democratic dealings in liberal societies with room for citizen initiatives.…”

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“…Mediators ignoring obvious power imbalances are not being politically neutral. Active, non-partisan mediation gives the planner some leeway to strengthen weak parties through information, training and agenda-setting procedures (Sager 2016(Sager :1274. The idea is that, for example, skill-building training can be given to parties who really need it, as long as the offer is made to all parties, even powerful groups who will not benefit from it.…”

Section: Aesop / Young Academics Network Activist Communicative Plannmentioning

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Activism by lay and professional planners

Sager

2019

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Activism was one of the main themes of the AESOP PhD Workshop 2018 in Karlskrona and Tjärö, Sweden. One of my presentations was about the activist roles of planners working for local governments and lay planners affiliated with civil society organizations. I have kept a close eye on the academic literature on activist planning for many years, and am still working in that sub-field of planning theory. My aim is to explore the limits of how professional planners with an activist intent can practice their line of work inside a bureaucracy, and to study how actors from the civil society can use spatial planning and local environmental planning in combination with direct action as a strategy for achieving their goals. To specify the kind of planning I have in mind, I follow Healey (1997:69), stating that: 'Spatial and environmental planning, understood relationally, becomes a practice of building a relational capacity which can address collective concerns about spatial coexistence , spatial organisation and the qualities of places'. Activist planners can contribute to the processes of such planning and help collect and form the input to spatial and environmental plans.

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“…Getting to the bottom of the matter, it is relevant to highlight that in the scientific literature social enterprises are considered drivers for urban regeneration for two main reasons: their transformative capacities affect places in terms of development opportunity (increasing employment, stimulating new entrepreneurship and producing collective services and goods), and as proactive actors contributing to planning decisional processesboth as bridges among conflicting actors and as promoters of alternative plans (Somerville & McElwee, 2011;Bailey, 2012;Le Xuan & Tricarico, 2013;Ragozino, 2016Ragozino, , 2019Sager, 2016). Figure 3.…”

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Social Impact Evaluation in Culture-led Regeneration Processes: Reflections on the “Social Return On Investment” Perspective

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2018

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Considering that a relevant challenge for social enterprises is to assess their social impacts, this paper approaches this issue by investigating cases that exemplify engagement in cultureled regeneration processes. Assuming the paradigm of 'Complex Urban Landscape' (CUL) as a holistic approach focused on the role of relationships, and conceiving the social enterprise as a hybrid organisation potentially affecting the urban context, the author presents a reflection on one of the most-used and much-debated social impact evaluation methods, the Social Return On Investment (SROI). The research deals with three main challenges: the difficulties in integrating cultural heritage as commons within urban planning and practices; the potential role of social enterprises to transmit cultural value through experiences of culture-led regeneration processes; and the exigencies of planning and developing social impact evaluation capable of critically observing and narrating the theory of change proposed by social enterprises.

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Activist planning: a response to the woes of neo-liberalism?

Cited by 41 publications

References 55 publications

Multiple land use planning for living places and investments spaces

Multiple land use planning for living places and investments spaces

Activism by lay and professional planners

Social Impact Evaluation in Culture-led Regeneration Processes: Reflections on the “Social Return On Investment” Perspective

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