Week 1-3 lectures
Week 1-3 readings
Week 4 lecture
Week 4 reading
Key thinkers
100

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?

100

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?

100

This term describes an institutionalised regime of racial oppression, domination and segregation.

What is apartheid?
100
Soja's analysis is based on this US city.

What is Los Angeles?

100

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?

200

The Builders Labourers' Federation used this tactic to prevent socially and environmentally destructive development in the 1970s.


What are Green Bans?

200

McGuirk's research followed a communicative planning process in this Australian city.


What is Newcastle?

200

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?

200

Soja takes inspiration from the campaign of this organisation.

What is the Bus Riders Union?
200

This political philosopher produced famous works on justice from a distributive perspective.

Who is John Rawls?

300

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?

300

This planning theory positions the planner as a 'critical friend' or 'knowledge mediator' within a communicative process.


What is communicative planning?

300

This concept describes a disjuncture between housing and employment opportunities for low income people.

What is spatial mismatch?

300
Soja suggests that any plan or policy could be subjected to this.

What is a justice test?

300

This Marxist geographer identified social injustice as inherent to the process of urbanisation under capitalism.


Who is David Harvey?

400

This legislation, alongside the 1977 Heritage Act, is seen as a legacy of the Builders Labourers' Federation.


What is the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act?

400

McGuirk argues that CPT overlooks these types of relations.


What are power relations?

400

Soja's 'triple dialectic' of (in)justice includes these three dimensions.

What are social, spatial & historical?

400

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?

400

This planning scholar coined the concept of the 'ladder of participation'.


Who is Sherry Arnstein?

500

This process acts as a bridge between empirical knowledge and theory.

What is abstraction?

500

For McGuirk, planning theory must embrace these alternatives to consensus.


What are conflict and compromise?

500

According to Nancy Fraser, justice involves not only distributive and procedural dimensions but also this third element.

What is recognition?

500

Soja describes three geographical resolutions of spatial injustice, the widest of which relates to this process.

What is geographically uneven development?

500

This scholar argues that planning is a fundamentally political discipline and must be practices as such.

Who is Leonie Sandercock?