Week 1-3 lectures
This thinker argued that rational forms are fundamental to the development of western society and capitalism, including formal rationality and substantive rationality.
Who is Max Weber?
This country undertook the most ambitious development of new towns according to new planning principles in response to housing shortages in the aftermath of WWII.
What is the United Kingdom?
This term describes an institutionalised regime of racial oppression, domination and segregation.
What is Los Angeles?
This New Yorker battled Robert Moses and wrote a famous book 1961 book that went on the influence a generation of urbanists.
Who is Jane Jacobs?
The Builders Labourers' Federation used this tactic to prevent socially and environmentally destructive development in the 1970s.
What are Green Bans?
McGuirk's research followed a communicative planning process in this Australian city.
What is Newcastle?
Keenga-Yamahtta Taylor used this term to describe the homeownership opportunities that were provided to Black households in the US in the 1960s.
What is predatory inclusion?
Soja takes inspiration from the campaign of this organisation.
This political philosopher produced famous works on justice from a distributive perspective.
Who is John Rawls?
This approach to urban design sought to separate pedestrians and traffic by designing 'back to front' houses, with front doors oriented to common open spaces rather than streets.
What is Radburn design?
This planning theory positions the planner as a 'critical friend' or 'knowledge mediator' within a communicative process.
What is communicative planning?
This concept describes a disjuncture between housing and employment opportunities for low income people.
What is spatial mismatch?
What is a justice test?
This Marxist geographer identified social injustice as inherent to the process of urbanisation under capitalism.
Who is David Harvey?
This legislation, alongside the 1977 Heritage Act, is seen as a legacy of the Builders Labourers' Federation.
What is the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act?
McGuirk argues that CPT overlooks these types of relations.
What are power relations?
Soja's 'triple dialectic' of (in)justice includes these three dimensions.
What are social, spatial & historical?
Soja draws heavily upon the work of David Harvey and this French philosopher, known for the concept of the 'right to the city'.
Who is Henri Lefebvre?
This planning scholar coined the concept of the 'ladder of participation'.
Who is Sherry Arnstein?
This process acts as a bridge between empirical knowledge and theory.
What is abstraction?
For McGuirk, planning theory must embrace these alternatives to consensus.
What are conflict and compromise?
According to Nancy Fraser, justice involves not only distributive and procedural dimensions but also this third element.
What is recognition?
Soja describes three geographical resolutions of spatial injustice, the widest of which relates to this process.
What is geographically uneven development?
This scholar argues that planning is a fundamentally political discipline and must be practices as such.
Who is Leonie Sandercock?