Beyond Safety: Refusing Colonial Violence Through Indigenous Feminist Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Dorries ◽  
Laura Harjo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Indigenous Feminism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Colonial Violence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Physical Dimensions

Settler colonial violence targets Indigenous women in specific ways. While urban planning has attended to issues of women’s safety, the physical dimensions of safety tend to be emphasized over the social and political causes of women’s vulnerability to violence. In this paper, we trace the relationship between settler colonialism and violence against Indigenous women. Drawing on examples from community activism and organizing, we consider how Indigenous feminism might be applied to planning and point toward approaches to planning that do not replicate settler colonial violence.

Tomorrow I’ll Be at the Table: Black Geographies and Urban Planning: A Review of the Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-474
Author(s):  
Anna Livia Brand ◽  
Charles Miller
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Black Geographies ◽  
The Relationship

This article reviews the literature on black geographies as it relates to the everyday work of urban planners. We outline the major claims and contributions of this scholarship to deepen our understanding of the relationship between the social and physical worlds. This article argues that this literature is a critical, yet missing, contribution to the field of urban planning because it provides different ways of knowing and understanding the experience of racial difference and therefore challenges us to invite more diverse views to the table and build more informed professional practices, pedagogical foundations, and empirical scholarship.

scholarly journals Legacies of Violence: Examining the Relationship Between Gender and Ethnic Cleansing

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Liz Dolcemore
Keyword(s):  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Critical Gender Studies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Traditional examinations of genocidal violence tend to focus on ethnic divisions and often fail to consider the impact of gender with respect to conflict. Building from the work that critical gender studies has made in post-conflict peacebuilding, this paper will look at cases that illustrate how targeting women within specific ethnic groups is an effective means of achieving genocidal goals. It will pay particular attention to the well-known events of the Rwandan genocide and draw comparisons to the legacies of the Indigenous genocide in Canada. Moreover, it will argue that the current crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women in Canada is related to a project of genocide fuelled by settler colonialism.

scholarly journals Exploring the Boundaries of Critical Pedagogy

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Fitsum Areguy
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Colonial Violence ◽  
Racialized Students ◽  
The Relationship

This visual essay attempts to evoke an aesthetic and affectual entry into the social-spatial terrains I navigate as a Black man and graduate student in Southwestern Ontario. I arrange the relationship between photographs of a factory in my hometown and short reflections into three scenes: The first scene touches on the racial and colonial violence that lingers and manifests in academia, as illustrated through my personal experiences. The essay moves to a second scene, touching on the settler-colonial legacy of the factory, as well as reckons with the anti-colonial implications of photographing the demolition and the troubling of subject-object relationships. The last scene emphasizes that, despite pedagogical efforts, the residue of racial and colonial violence in academic settings will still have some degree of impact on racialized students. Critical pedagogues must contend with the reality that racialized students, by virtue of being and existing in academic spaces, embody a pedagogy that could potentially disrupt and deconstruct learning environments into transformative, radical, respectful and caring spaces.

Revisiting the Legal Framework of Urban Planning in the Global South

2019 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Oluwole Daramola
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Spatial Allocation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban And Regional Development ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the profession of urban planning within the context of the Nigerian legal system. In Nigeria, there is an array of legislation relevant to urban planning that is aimed at securing sustainable cities through various planning activities. The chapter establishes the relationship between law and urban planning activities and puts it that the latter is an offshoot of the former. It further discusses the legal framework of urban planning in Nigeria, with due consideration to the problems inherent in it and the effects of such problems on urban development in the country. The chapter also suggests a need for paradigm shift by providing for strategies rooted in law towards viable urban and regional development and economic growth in Nigeria. The chapter concludes that strengthening the legal framework of urban planning will provide opportunities for equitable and spatial allocation of resources that takes cognizance of the social, economic, institutional, and environmental dimensions of an urban center.

SUPPORTING URBAN PLANNING WITH CAGE: A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT TO SIMULATE COMPLEX SYSTEMS

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (supp02) ◽  
pp. 309-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARNALDO CECCHINI ◽  
GIUSEPPE A. TRUNFIO
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Cellular Automata ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Side ◽  
The Relationship

The planning process is a multiactor, multilevel process, and the techniques we need for it must be suitable for all the protagonists involved. Moreover, the difficulty in dealing with the complexity of urban systems and the related difficulty of analyzing and forecasting are twofold: one kind of difficulty lies in the complexity of the system itself, and the other is due to the actions of actors, which are "acts of freedom." Correspondingly, the process of urban planning requires a set of techniques and models that have proved to be of great potential for management of communication, participation, consensus-building and system' simulation. In this paper, we describe the peculiarity of the articulated set of tools that should be used to support planning, allowing the setting up and management of processes of participation and communication tailored to the needs of specific projects — a set of friendly tools that make the relationship between technicians, clients and users effective and efficacious. Following this discussion we present a very flexible software environment based on cellular automata (Cellular Automata General Environment — CAGE) that can be used to simulate planning decisions and can be coupled with other modules dealing with the "social side" of complexity.

Forme periferiche del disordine

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
Daniela De Leo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Pact ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Relationship

- The first results of a research study in progress and the perspective suggested by the articles published here, allow us to reflect on the ‘forms of disorder' in the outer urban districts of towns and cities in southern Italy affected by the presence of organised crime. The relationship between mafias and communities is revisited here from the specific viewpoint of urban planning and regulation. The objective is to expose the ‘caricature of the social pact' present in the criminal order, to use Magatti's insightful expression and to re-establish the ‘disappointed relations with citizens', as suggested more generally by Castel. It is not a banal combination if it reaffirms the credibility of the authorities as a prerequisite and fair distribution in access to resources and information as a practice. This would constitute the hard core of a specific urban planning policy to fight organised crime.

Revisiting the Legal Framework of Urban Planning in the Global South

2018 ◽  
pp. 258-271
Author(s):  
Oluwole Daramola
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Spatial Allocation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban And Regional Development ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the profession of urban planning within the context of the Nigerian legal system. In Nigeria, there is an array of legislation relevant to urban planning that is aimed at securing sustainable cities through various planning activities. The chapter establishes the relationship between law and urban planning activities and puts it that the latter is an offshoot of the former. It further discusses the legal framework of urban planning in Nigeria, with due consideration to the problems inherent in it and the effects of such problems on urban development in the country. The chapter also suggests a need for paradigm shift by providing for strategies rooted in law towards viable urban and regional development and economic growth in Nigeria. The chapter concludes that strengthening the legal framework of urban planning will provide opportunities for equitable and spatial allocation of resources that takes cognizance of the social, economic, institutional, and environmental dimensions of an urban center.

Visual Legalities of Race and Reparations

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (02) ◽  
pp. 219-234
Author(s):  
Carmela Murdocca
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Representational Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Drawing attention to the legal and psychoanalytic genealogy of reparations, this article examines the relationship between reparations and racial difference through an analysis of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s documentary series 8th Fire: Aboriginal People, Canada and the Way Forward. The representational life of reparations in liberal settler colonialism is a repository for addressing the broader landscape of legality—sovereignty, self-determination and anti-colonialism—beyond the confines of international human rights mechanisms. This article considers the following questions: How do forms of testimony animate connections between reparations and racial difference? In what ways do visual and representational practices operate through racial and colonial temporalities central to reparative juridics? What is the relationship between reparations and possibilities for anti-colonialism? I argue that the social, legal, cultural, and representational life of reparations in settler colonialism is structured by racial difference.

Integration durch Partizipation? Zum Verhältnis von formeller und informeller Bürgerbeteiligung am Beispiel der Stadtplanung / Integration through participation? The relationship between formal and informal public participation in the case of urban planning

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Dröge ◽  
Chantal Magnin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractLaw, closely linked with the idea of a society of free and equal citizens, has always played a major role in the social integration of the modern city. This is also true of urban planning, the main topic of this article. Current trends in this field, however, point instead in the direction of legal deregulation and informalization. The relationships between municipality, local economy and citizens are being reshaped in the market form - accompanied by informal public participation and community-building within civil society. It is doubtful, however, as many proponents suggest, that this enhances social integration in urban planning, as the universalism of law is being abandoned in the process.

scholarly journals The Legacy of CIAM in the Netherlands: Continuity and Innovation in Dutch Housing Design

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Komossa ◽  
Martin Aarts
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Dutch Housing ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Morphological Transformations ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses how CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) influenced Dutch housing and urban planning. It starts by looking at programs and policies of the 1920s and 1930s Dutch housing design, and the way in which the new ideas of CIAM were there incorporated. In this history, the design of the AUP (Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan Amsterdam, or the General Extension Plan) is crucial, marking the transition into a new spatial model for large scale housing areas. CIAM thinking and its successor, TEAM X, strongly influenced the idea of the social-cultural city before and directly after WWII. This becomes evident in the urban extensions of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. This practice influenced urban planning and housing design and culminated during the 1970s in the design of the Bijlmermeer. Though legendary and still detectable in the urban developments of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, CIAM thinking came forward as both visionary and problematic. This article will trace the CIAM history in these two cities to depict concepts of innovation, but also continuities in modern housing design and planning practices by focusing on spatial models, typo-morphological transformations, and ideals vis- à-vis the urban public realm. In addition to relevant writings, typo-morphological maps, drawings and street photography also serve as tools of analysis and interpretation. The article will conclude with some future perspectives regarding the relationship between the CIAM legacy and contemporary urban issues.

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