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Activist planning: a response to the woes of neo-liberalism?

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  • Tore Sager

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Neo-liberalism provokes many forms of resistance, and activist planning is here shown to be one of them. The strong influence on planning of those that are able to contribute most to the economy, and those that emphasize material values, motivates progressive planners and planning-oriented social movements to take direct action to challenge the economism of urban plans and protect vulnerable segments of the population. The article offers a systematization of activist planning modes, concentrating on planning that is unconcealed and recognized by the government, and including efforts of both lay and professional planners. Particular attention is given to modes of activist planning that are not among the most familiar, such as critical-alternative initiatives, community-based activist planning and modes that position the planner as an intermediary between partisan interests. These modes are used for organizing alternative thinking in planning contexts where policy change is higher on the activists’ agenda than system change. For most of the discussed planning modes, a number of examples illustrate activist planning’s critical relationship with neo-liberalism.

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  • Tore Sager, 2016. "Activist planning: a response to the woes of neo-liberalism?," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(7), pages 1262-1280, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:24:y:2016:i:7:p:1262-1280
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2016.1168784
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    1. Lummina G. Horlings & Christian Lamker & Emma Puerari & Ward Rauws & Gwenda van der Vaart, 2021. "Citizen Engagement in Spatial Planning, Shaping Places Together," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-15, October.
    2. Verlinghieri, Ersilia & Venturini, Federico, 2018. "Exploring the right to mobility through the 2013 mobilizations in Rio de Janeiro," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 126-136.
    3. Sagaris, Lake & Berríos, Emilio & Tiznado-Aitken, Ignacio, 2020. "Using PAR to frame sustainable transport and social justice on policy agendas. A pilot experience in two contrasting Chilean cities," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    4. John Pløger, 2021. "Conflict, consent, dissensus: The unfinished as challenge to politics and planning," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 39(6), pages 1294-1309, September.

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