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Chain reactions: can experimental urbanism provide the formula for productive, place-based, change?

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Georgiana VarnaORCiD

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Abstract

In this commentary, we revisit our previous viewpoint (Varna and Oswell, 2021) and explain how our work has progressed since it was published. The commentary is structured into three sections. In the first, we revisit our original propositions to allow us to critically reflect on them. In the second, we ground our reflective practice within a theoretical context and set out an emerging methodology to trial action research and experiments in urbanism. The third section sets out a strategy for deployment of this methodology in active processes of experimental urbanism in a mix of specific ‘left-behind’ neighbourhoods in northeast England.

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Author(s): Oswell D, Varna G

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Town Planning Review

Year: 2024

Volume: 95

Issue: 4

Pages: 435-447

Print publication date: 17/06/2024

Online publication date: 01/05/2024

Acceptance date: 14/02/2024

Date deposited: 05/12/2025

ISSN (print): 0041-0020

ISSN (electronic): 1478-341X

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2024.15

DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2024.15

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