“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”: giving voice to planning practitioners

Planners’ role in accommodating citizen disagreement: The case of Dutch urban planning

“…For example, some might be personally in favour of an anti-capitalist revolution and act with such sentiments in their professional life. The study Penpeciog˘lu and Tasan-Kok (2016) and Tasan-Kok et al (2016) on young urban planners is helpful to show the very different orientations experts might have.…”

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“…The world of planning today is seen by scholarly literature as an exciting, but also a challenging, profession in reference to the political economic framework which is dominated by authoritarianism, neoliberalism, informality, crime, fragmentation, depoliticization, and populism (see Filion, 2011;Gunder, 2010;Kunzmann, 2016;Ponzini, 2016;Ruming, 2018;Tasan-Kok & Baeten, 2011;Thornley, 2018;Sager, 2009;Roy, 2015). Although the practitioner's role is prone to high levels of political and economic pressures in this 'dark' impression, recent studies have shown that there is a tendency among planning practitioners to push boundaries (Forester, 2013;Tasan-Kok et al, 2016;Tasan-Kok & Oranje, 2017) and even to become activists . Furthermore, work with planning students shows that radical critical approaches in planning education may turn into mere cynicism when they do not offer an analysis of problems or offer tools for alternative and emancipatory ideas (Tunström, 2017).…”

“…Planning practitioners make political choices to safeguard public interest, take proactive roles or even become activists within the machine of bureaucracy, which is in contrast to the elitist, self-centred view of modernist planners, recognizing the importance of collaboration, coproduction and negotiation with public-and private-sector actors and social groups (Tasan-Kok et al, 2016;Tasan-Kok & Oranje, 2017). However, these progressive actions tend to mute the planners' individual stories of endeavor and hope, and mask the role these individuals have played in hard-fought victories by radically critical scholarly literature.…”

Dialogic and public space: Participatory approach to urban design

“…Овакав приступ има за циљ да одговори на плурализам интереса у заједници, као и оријентацију ка тржишту (Fainstein, 1999). Стога се принципи комуникационог планирања и партиципације све више уводе у област образовања будућих стручњака (Sinclair, 2002;Tasan-Kok et al, 2016;Маруна, 2015).…”