Policy and Practice Spatial imaginaries: tyrannies or transformations?

Davoudi, Simin; Crawford, Jenny; Raynor, Ruth; Reid, Bryonie; Sykes, Olivier; Shaw, David

doi:10.3828/tpr.2018.7

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“…Moreover, imagination in planning has been deemed to have political, audacious, creative, and therapeutic qualities [51]. Inevitably, imagination has also been used as a concept to describe the power play in shaping different dimensions of the urban complexity, such as imaginations of spatial dynamics [52], imaginations of governance processes [53], imaginations of technologies [54], and imaginations of communities [55,56].…”

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The Landscape of Envisioning and Speculative Design Methods for Sustainable Mobility Futures

2020

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Urban mobility is facing an increased long-term uncertainty and complexity generated by accelerated technological development. These challenges require radical advancement in planning processes and methods, which could enable breaking out of path dependencies and unlocking alternative, sustainable futures. In order to provide a landscape overview of foresight-focused methods used in the domain of urban mobility, we conduct a systematic literature review. An analytical framework for review is based on planning knowledge taxonomy, including dialectic between knowing how/what and knowing to what end and doing. Such framework formulation is aiming to assess methodological capacity for widening system boundary and holism (object-focus) as well as integration and imagination (process-focus). Results show that the overall trend of methodological development is emphasizing development in object or process-focus domain, but rarely both. In addition to this assessment, we conclude that methodological development should further reflect the moral and democratic dimension concerning public deliberation. Such development should aim to create spaces for shared discussion, reflection, and formation of alternative futures, while allowing spaces for agonistic contestation and conflicting opinions through radical, experimental, and experiential approaches.

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The Landscape of Envisioning and Speculative Design Methods for Sustainable Mobility Futures

2020

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“…Imaginaries are collectively held broad conceptual frameworks of representation and interpretation, and as such, cannot be reduced to interests of certain groups or works of individual imagination (Davoudi et al, 2018). Hincks, Deas, and Haughton (2017, p. 4) emphasize that the appeal of imaginaries to policymaking rests largely on their imprecision and fluidity.…”

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“…To analyse this, we associate polycentricity with the concept of 'spatial imaginary' (e.g. Davoudi et al, 2018). We chose the concept as an analytical frame as it captures the nature of polycentricity both as a planning concept and as a planning space, and, further, as a concept affording multiple interpretations and legitimizing material practices.…”

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Polycentricity as spatial imaginary: the case of Helsinki City Plan

Granqvist

Sarjamo

Mäntysalo

2019

European Planning Studies

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The paper analyses with a case study the use of a widely applied normative concept of polycentricity as spatial imaginary. The case study of Helsinki City Plan and the conflict over its city-boulevard scheme draws on qualitative content analysis of planning documents and expert interviews. It demonstrates the instrumental role of multiple interpretations of polycentricity in tension-ridden metropolitan and city-regional spatial planning. The conflict reveals how the conceptual ambiguity of polycentricity and the institutional vagueness of city-regional planning have together enabled advancing contradictory political aims under their guise. In conclusion, the paper emphasizes the persuasive performativity and fluidity of polycentricity as a spatial imaginary in multi-scalar planning settings.

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“…Within this context, collective understandings of landscape and nature-culture relations are found at regional or sub-regional scales. They are intrinsically contested and power-laden and may be mobilised by individual actors in the construction of regional identities (also Paasi 2008;Davoudi 2018). In line with a relational, processual understanding of landscape, the concept of landscape imaginaries incorporates elements of both temporality and spatiality.…”

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Landscape Imaginaries and the Protection of Dynamic Nature at the Wadden Sea

Walsh

2020

Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History

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Policy and Practice Spatial imaginaries: tyrannies or transformations?

Cited by 81 publications

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The Landscape of Envisioning and Speculative Design Methods for Sustainable Mobility Futures

The Landscape of Envisioning and Speculative Design Methods for Sustainable Mobility Futures

Polycentricity as spatial imaginary: the case of Helsinki City Plan

Landscape Imaginaries and the Protection of Dynamic Nature at the Wadden Sea

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