Urban and Regional Planning Education in Mexico

2019 ◽  
pp. 0739456X1988966
Author(s):  
Sergio Peña
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
First Century ◽  
Rational Model ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Planning Education ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Education In Mexico

This analysis sheds light on planning education in Mexico. One important question that the paper addresses is: Are planning programs forming professionals capable of addressing the challenges that cities and regions face in the twenty-first century? The study draws upon a content analysis of 253 course syllabi and a database of 128 employed local planners. The results of the analysis suggest that planning curricula are still very much embedded in the rational model and there is a challenge for strengthening the curricula with more communicative skills that are valuable in a postmodern society.

Bringing Rurality Back to Planning Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2110489
Author(s):  
Michael Hibbard ◽  
Kathryn I. Frank
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
First Century ◽  
Rural Planning ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Urban Bias ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Planning Culture ◽  
Shed Light

The vast majority of the world’s land area is rural, yet rurality is routinely marginalized in planning. Urban bias is tacit and under-problematized, so the challenges facing rural areas and the importance of those challenges for society as a whole are not much reflected in planning scholarship or practice. We interrogate the urban bias and its implications for rural planning through the lens of planning cultures, using a content analysis of prominent and recent texts to shed light on the nature and implications of urban bias. Finally, we suggest ways to “bring the rural back” into twenty-first-century planning.

scholarly journals Hiding Traces of Status Seeking: Contradictory Tagging Strategies on Instagram

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512093731
Author(s):  
Floor Fiers
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
High Status ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Status Seeking ◽  
Twenty First Century

The prevailing presence of social media in the twenty-first century has changed processes of self-presentation. This study questions how Instagram users employ the platform’s tagging features to claim and seek status. Content analysis on a random sample of 787 posts carrying the hashtag “instagood” revealed that they utilize the tagging affordances to make their audience aware of their capital. In addition to displaying their capital through tags, however, users employ hashtags and account tags to increase their visibility on the platform. Interestingly, analysis shows the prevalence of attempts to conceal these obvious paratextual status-seeking strategies. Over half of the Instagram posts in the sample showed traces of the creators taking active steps to hide their use of like-hunter hashtags, through which users explicitly ask other Instagrammers for likes and follows. This finding builds upon Marwick’s concept of aspirational production: The perfecting of one’s online presentation does not only happen by producing a high-status image, but also by concealing the “inauthentic” nature of this production. Furthermore, the fact that traces of obvious status seeking can be found online implies that the lines between Goffman’s front- and backstage are blurred in the digital age.

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