Experimenting with anarchistic approaches to collaborative planning: The Planning Free School of Chattanooga

Knapp, Courtney Elizabeth

doi:10.1080/07352166.2017.1305767

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“…The mobilization of a collective agency to actively monitor redevelopment processes, elevate marginalized community voices, and advocate for equitable development may complement these efforts and represents a promising approach (King and Lowe 2018), especially in cities undertaking large-scale, market-based redevelopment initiatives (Roy 2015). These efforts should be complemented by initiatives that bring diverse groups together to reflect on personal histories and productively engage opposing views of neighborhood change and redevelopment processes (Knapp 2017).…”

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“We Roll our Sleeves up and get to Work!”: Portraits of Collective Action and Neighborhood Change in Atlanta's West End

Foell

Foster

2021

Urban Affairs Review

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Collective action is one strategy urban neighborhood residents use to address community issues. However, collective action dynamics in rapidly changing urban neighborhoods are not well understood. This study used photovoice to examine perspectives on collective action and neighborhood change among residents of an urban neighborhood experiencing redevelopment in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Residents indicated that place attachment motivated and reinforced participation in collective action efforts to address neighborhood issues and to reconstruct narratives that challenged place stigmatization. Findings suggest that residents have heterogeneous perspectives about neighborhood change and local development, and simultaneously balance desires for neighborhood improvement with concerns about displacement, gentrification, and equitable development.

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“We Roll our Sleeves up and get to Work!”: Portraits of Collective Action and Neighborhood Change in Atlanta's West End

Foell

Foster

2021

Urban Affairs Review

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“…It is this contestation that has led to a number of researchers proposing that placemaking lie somewhere between these binary end points. For example, both Knapp (2017) and Houghton et al (2015) begin their research articles with the following statements:…”

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Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Placemaking

Ellery¹,

Ellery

Borkowsky³

2020

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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Historically, planners, community development groups, and other place-engaged organizations and practitioners have worked to elevate the importance of place and placemaking in economically, socially, and environmentally responsible development. However, recent studies have presented the concept of placemaking from professionally different perspectives using a variety of definitions to both rationalize and operationalize this still somewhat nebulous concept. This ambiguity surrounding the term placemaking is further compounded by the use of three different types of spellings for the term in the research literature, with none of the spellings having a clear, consistent, or universally accepted definition aligned to it. Without a common understanding of placemaking as a concept, or how placemaking works theoretically, measuring the value or impact placemaking has as a process on community development is conjectural. The purpose of this article is to provide a review of the academic research literature related to placemaking over the past 5 years, describe the current state of placemaking as a concept based on the issues raised in past literature, identify key theoretical principles that consistently support placemaking as it is being used in the research literature, and then use these principles to propose a theoretical model describing how placemaking works as a process. The theoretical model proposed in this work is offered for further examination, description, and testing and as a foundation for future research on the role placemaking plays in community development professional practice.

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“…I believe planners would be wise to develop collaborations with librarians to take advantage of the library's reputation as a shared civic space. The Planning Free School certainly leveraged these preexisting relationships: the initiative attracted more than one hundred different participants to its workshops, many of whom regularly visited the library but had never previously engaged with local planning matters (Knapp 2017(Knapp , 2018. Staff librarians were integral to this outreach, encouraging patrons to attend sessions and advertising activities across their various face-to-face and socialmedia platforms.…”

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“…Emerging mutualities grounded new campaigns and solidarity work, including the Coalition to Save Lincoln Park, which emerged, in part, from a series of Transportation and Mobility workshops, and continues today, five years after the Free School experiment ended (Knapp 2017(Knapp , 2018.…”

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“…I base this perspective on a review of relevant literature, combined with my own experiences co-organizing the Planning Free School of Chattanooga. The Planning Free School was an experimental collaborative planning initiative that evolved during dissertation fieldwork focused on the racialized politics of placemaking and development in Chattanooga, Tennessee (see Knapp 2017Knapp , 2018. Over five months, I organized fifty-two workshops in partnership with the Chattanooga Public Library, whose staff provided space, marketing assistance, and research expertise to the school.…”

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Unlocking the Democratic Potential of Urban Planner–Librarian Collaborations

Knapp

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Planners and librarians work in complementary fields with common civic engagement and empowerment goals. This essay argues that urban planners and librarians stand to benefit mutually from interdisciplinary collaboration in four key areas: democratic access and participation, information literacy and capacity building, trust and social capital, and evolving institutional relevance. My commentary draws from a review of relevant literature, personal experiences collaborating with librarians on the Planning Free School of Chattanooga, and the perspectives of participants who joined the initiative.

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Experimenting with anarchistic approaches to collaborative planning: The Planning Free School of Chattanooga

Cited by 9 publications

References 53 publications

“We Roll our Sleeves up and get to Work!”: Portraits of Collective Action and Neighborhood Change in Atlanta's West End

“We Roll our Sleeves up and get to Work!”: Portraits of Collective Action and Neighborhood Change in Atlanta's West End

Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Placemaking

Unlocking the Democratic Potential of Urban Planner–Librarian Collaborations

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