Commentary: indigenous planning and the burden of colonialism

Sandercock, Leonie

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“…Her shack on the Elliott Bay tideflats was not far from the central waterfront site, where the most important Duwamish settlement on the bay was located and where some of the nearly 100 native longhouses burned by settlers were located [97]. Such histories indicate the tribal interests that might support understanding the urban blue space as a "contact zone" between indigenous claims and state-based planning [91]; a venue of deliberate, contested unsettling of planning and development practices through an emergent politics of difference [98,99].…”

Section: Tribal Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Blue Space and “The Project of the Century”: Doing Justice on the Seattle Waterfront and for Local Residents

Wessells

2014

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Urban blue space is increasingly embraced by cities as a specific and valuable genre of public space, valued for its economic, symbolic and experiential place attributes and essential to sustainable urban development. This article takes up the concept of urban blue space from a design perspective, extending and exploring it through a critical social science lens. Using the reconfiguration and redesign of the central Seattle waterfront as a case example, the idea of "doing justice" is enlisted to examine not just the design opportunities and formal characteristics of the site, but also the patterns of privilege, access and regional socio-ecological equity that are raised through its redesign. After situating the extraordinary design opportunity presented by this iconic urban blue space, and the imperative to do justice to the waterfront's physical situation, the article presents the site from four additional and discrete perspectives: economic justice, environmental justice, social justice and tribal justice. By thus foregrounding the urban political ecology of the waterfront, the article demonstrates that the most important challenge of the site's redevelopment is not technological, financial or administrative, although these are real, and significant challenges, but rather, the need to construct a place that works to counter established patterns of local and regional injustice. In Seattle as in other coastal port cities, urban blue space is a shared public and environmental good, with unique and demanding governance responsibilities for its conceptualization and sustainable development. Keywords: blue space; urban waterfronts; inclusive planning; sustainable urban development OPEN ACCESSBuildings 2014, 4 766 is meant to ameliorate the degenerative effects of unchecked market economies [9], protecting the human and non-human populations of urban social-ecological systems. Due to its significance to the economic, environmental, social and cultural patterns of urbanization, urban blue space is an ideal place to consider the pillars of sustainable urban development, in practice.There are distinct social and ecological dimensions of urban blue space [10]. It is a social space of gathering, labor, economic exchange, recreation, subsistence fishing, cultural tradition and journey-making, as well as an ecological space of watershed catchment, primary productivity, near-shore habitat, species migration and, often, environmental degradation. Urban blue space is a more complicated concept than "waterfront" and better captures the intersecting imperatives of sustainable urban development. While a waterfront suggests a firm boundary-literally, that which fronts the water, with connotations forged in the experience of late modern cities, namely trade, piers, industry, tourism and retail/leisure promenades-urban blue space is broader, more complex and more permeable. It is a kind of place that makes room for the ecological, in both a social and an environmental sense. In the same way that "green space" signals a civic and envi...

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Section: Tribal Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Blue Space and “The Project of the Century”: Doing Justice on the Seattle Waterfront and for Local Residents

Wessells

2014

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“…Dispossession and exclusion of the local people are the sociospatial consequences of this brand of colonialism as “settlers usually occupied space at the expense of existing inhabitants, who were referred to as ‘native’ and regarded as ‘primitive’” (Sandercock 2004, 118). Such strategies are part of the project of colonization, defined as “a political and economic phenomenon, characterized by the forcible domination and exploitation of a state over territory and population beyond its own borders,” but not requiring direct political sponsorship from an outside government or country (Aaronsohn 1996, 217).…”

Section: Settlersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourists as colonizers in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Brown

2013

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Spatial appropriation is an age‐old strategy for domination by one group over another. In the context of national states, territorial expansion is a common manifestation of this. Spain's colonization process began in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico in the sixteenth century but remained incomplete in this area. Independent Mexico's struggle for control over the Mayan landscape of the Yucatan continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is my contention that the assault has continued in recent times. Today, it is not the conventional notion of nation state colonialism but a much more subtle invasion brought about by the ability of tourists from richer nations to travel south. Using the paradigm of settler colonization, this article proposes that relationships of power underlying this new infiltration parallel those of conventional colonialism, and that the tourist is, in fact, an unwitting colonizer. The case of Quintana Roo, Mexico illustrates how the tourist can be seen as a pawn in a larger political project. Exposure of this predatory nature of tourism reveals processes that have implications for other Native regions of the Americas and beyond that are suffering similar “invasions.”

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“…Instead of prioritizing Indigenous values, the nominal recognition and control that accompanied the 1996 On-Reserve Housing Policy had the effect of subjugating and compartmentalizing Indigenous interests (King, 2010;Rankin, 2010;Sandercock, 2004), acting as a form of "internal colonization" (Hibbard & Lane, 2004, p. 98). Shifting from the more overt colonial tactic of civilizing through forcible changes, participation in the planning processes is "couched in the vernacular of mutual recognition" (Coulthard, 2007, p. 438).…”

Section: Indigenous Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-Thinking Housing: From Physical Manifestation of Colonial Planning Policy to Community-Focused Networks

McCartney

2016

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Current housing systems and policies for First Nations communities in Canada produce a physical manifestation of ongoing colonialism: the house. Examinations of the physical community and house yield an understanding of deeply systematized imperial struggles between Indigenous communities and planning as a discipline. Indigenous families are in crisis as the housing system and Federal planning policies have not allowed for the provision of adequate nor appropriate homes. The recent independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission has begun a civic discussion, accompanied by a new federal government looking to begin a new relationship with Indigenous peoples-here we explore how planning can be a leader in this shift. The 'contact zone' is used as an operational lens to examine the ways discourse is used to shape the existing housing system. An interdisciplinary and global approach informs interventions in the existing housing system and policies, creating a community-driven model, and uncovering a reimagined role for the planner.

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Commentary: indigenous planning and the burden of colonialism

Cited by 43 publications

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Urban Blue Space and “The Project of the Century”: Doing Justice on the Seattle Waterfront and for Local Residents

Urban Blue Space and “The Project of the Century”: Doing Justice on the Seattle Waterfront and for Local Residents

Tourists as colonizers in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Re-Thinking Housing: From Physical Manifestation of Colonial Planning Policy to Community-Focused Networks

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