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Content: This module explores forms of strategic action in urban development policy, planning and management that seek to forefront socio-spatial and environmental justice. In a context of escalating housing/accommodation crises, deepening urban inequalities, vulnerability to growing risks (environmental, pandemic, digital, etc.) and, in many contexts, increasingly divisive - if not conflictual - politics, the module encourages students to explore methodologies of planning most able to reclaim its transformative potential as collective practice of care and repair. It does so by developing students鈥� analytical capacities to critically engage with dominant urban development planning approaches, in theory and practice; and by sharpening a strategic reading of the situated challenges and opportunities for collective action that build on the knowledge and planning agency of diverse urban communities in Global South (and North) settings.

Teaching delivery: This module is taught across two terms of nine weekly sessions in each term. It relies on lectures, class discussions, group work and independent study. The first term (led by Azadeh Mashayekhi) is dedicated to a critical examination of the theories and practices of urban development planning, exploring how the latter are shaped by the interplay between both urbanisation and other key development processes; and by wider debates in development policy, planning and management. The first term also seeks to equip participants with an analytical framework for understanding urban planning, in light of extended notions of social, spatial and environmental justice.

In the second term (led by Barbara Lipietz), the module unpacks critical issues for collective strategic action that seeks to defend and extend the just, caring and reparative city. 听In particular, the module assesses the potential for collective agency in contexts of conflictual power relations; the meaning and dimensions of 鈥榮trategic鈥� collective action for justice; the role of visioning and discourse politics in expanding the room for manoeuvre for doing planning otherwise; and the importance of learning planning institutions/agents in contexts undergoing rapid urban transformations. 听Through detailed engagement with practices from global South and North, the module helps identify potential entry points for strategic collective action in urban development which enhances socio-spatial and environmental justice.

Indicative topics: In the first term, indicative topics include a reflexive and critical understanding of key planning approaches through comparative analysis of cases of practice related to such approaches, and explorations of socio-environmental justice frame for revised planning theory and practice.

In the second term, indicative topics include social agency and power in planning, the meaning of 鈥榮trategic鈥� in planning, knowledge and planning, discourse politics and planning, the methodology of strategic action planning, planning as learning. 听听

Module Objectives: This module aims to provide participants with the following:

鈥� An understanding of the genealogy (and contemporary challenges) of urban development planning and governance, and how these relate to evolving planning discourses in interplay with wider development processes and policies;

鈥� An exploration of justice (social, spatial, environmental, epistemic, etc.) in urban development and its application in the assessment of urban development and planning practice;

鈥� An exploration of theories, methodologies and practices of collective strategic action in urban development which can address socio-spatial and environmental justice;

鈥� The capacity to develop analytical and critical arguments on the basis of theory and comparative empirical evidence in the field of urban development planning;

鈥� Familiarity with multi-disciplinary team working;

鈥� Improved presentation, public speaking, policy advocacy and debating skills.

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Recommended readings:

Boonyabancha, S. (2005). Baan Mankong: going to scale with 鈥渟lum鈥� and squatter upgrading in Thailand. Environment and Urbanization, 17(1), 21-46.

Fraser, N. (2009) 鈥淪cales of justice: Reimagining political space in a globalizing world鈥�, Columbia University Press: New York, pp. 12-29. (Chapter 2: Reframing justice in a globalizing world).

Levy, C. (2007). Defining Collective Strategic Action Led by Civil Society Organisations The Case of CLIFF, India.听8th N-AERUS Conference听(pp. 1-29). London: N-AERUS

Miraftab, F. (2009) 鈥淚nsurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South鈥�, Planning Theory, Vol. 8, No.1, pp. 32-50.

Watson, V. (2014) 鈥淐o-production and collaboration in planning 鈥� The difference鈥�, Planning Theory & Practice, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 62-76.

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Additional costs: None.

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