How do you employ an insurgent planner?

Rocco, R; Silvestre, G

doi:10.2307/jj.13473647.5

How do you employ an insurgent planner?

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Gabriel Silvestre ORCiD

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Abstract

This book investigates insurgent planning practices, and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It features planners “pushing the envelope” and challenging technocratic planning, “respond[ing] to neoliberal specifics of dominance through inclusion” (Miraftab 2009: 32), by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and the right to the city into their daily practices.Its 11 chapters, written by contributors from diverse socio-political realities, delve into these daily practices to answer these questions. What does insurgent planning look like in practice? How are radical planners coping with traditional, technocratic planning as practised in most places around the world? And...