Insurgent Planning Practice

Edited by Roberto Rocco, Gabriel Silvestre

Publication date:

23 April 2024

Publisher

Agenda Publishing

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781788216760

This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It explores how planners can challenge technocratic planning by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and the right to the city into their daily practices. Each chapter delves into those daily practices to answer: What does insurgent planning practice look like in practice? How are radical planners coping with traditional, technocratic planning as practised in most places around the world? And what do they do to advance an agenda of democratisation and the right to the city, counteracting neoliberal forms of governance?

Chapters draw on conversations with planners in several cities around the world, cataloguing insurgent experiences that challenge the status quo of contemporary market-based, exclusionary city-making. Throughout, cross-cutting issues such as gender, race and class are explored to consider ways in which insurgent planners bring diversity into planning.

Foreword by Faranak Miraftab

1. Introduction: how do you employ an insurgent planner?
Roberto Rocco and Gabriel Silvestre

Part I: Political and Citizenship Practices

2. Insurgent planning and the negotiated position of democratic political practice in Antwerp
Seppe De Blust, Elisabet Van Wymeersch and Stijn Oosterlynck

3. Reinventing invited spaces of citizenship through transgressive participation: Taipei’s "Parks for Children by Children" movement
Erich Hellmer, Ying-Tzu Lin and Pei-Wen Lu

4. A tale of two powers: conditions and personifications of insurgent planners in Jakarta
Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri

5. Insurgent planning in a state of exception: The reopening of the Beirut Pine Forest, Lebanon
Christine Mady, Saskia Ruijsink, Jessica Chemali and Els Keunen

Part II: Academic action

6. Popular plans in counter-hegemonic struggles in Rio de Janeiro: the cases of Vila Autódromo and Vargens
Giselle Tanaka, Fabricio Leal de Oliveira, Luis Régis Coli and Fernanda dos Santos

7. Insurgent planning practices and university-community engagement in popular urbanisation: the urban planning commission in the land reclamation of Guernica, Buenos Aires
Francesca Ferlicca and Beatriz Helena Pedro

8. From data collection to citizenship: Insurgent planning in a citizen science flood-monitoring project in Makassar, Indonesia
Erich Wolff, Michaela F. Prescott and Diego Ramirez-Lovering

Part III: Planning Practice

9. Participatory planning and the insurgent city: The challenges of the right to the city in Belo Horizonte
Gabriel Silvestre

10. Planning beyond the status quo: feminism and insurgency at the Belo Horizonte City Council during the approval of the city masterplan
Higor Rafael de Souza Carvalho and Mariana Belmon

11. "Either they want it or not": Turkey’s Chamber of City Planners as a catalyst for insurgency in planning
Duygu Cihanger Ribeiro, José Duarte Ribeiro and Ceren Tosun

12. Ken Sterrett: insurgent urbanism in Belfast's time of troubles
Agustina Martire and Mura Quigley

13. Conclusion: insurgent planning practice in comparative perspective
Roberto Rocco and Gabriel Silvestre

A timely and important contribution to the scholarly conversations on radical, insurgent, and pluriversal planning practices... reinvigorates geography and urban planning by foregrounding the everyday, messy, situated practices of diverse configurations of dissidence against technocratic and neoliberal city-making... the volume’s strength lies in its empirical richness and its attempt to make visible the unruly muddiness of insurgent praxis... for scholars and practitioners invested in urban politics, Insurgent Planning Practice offers valuable insights and provides critical instances to think with and learn from about the future of insurgent planning in an era of escalating polycrises.