Junayo He’s Post

Our colleague Rico Herzog with Juliana Gonçalves, Geertje Slingerland, Reinout Kleinhans (PhD), Holger Prang, Frances Brazier, and Trivik Verma recently published an article: "Cities for Citizens! Public Value Spheres for Understanding Conflicts in Urban Planning". This paper explores the complex world of urban development, focusing on how participatory data could assist in identifying public values and their conflicts, with the help of #DIPAS platform in Hamburg. This is essential reading for anyone involved in urban planning, public policy, and sustainable city development. It's not just about building cities, but about understanding the heartbeat of their communities. Have a look also at the blog post on Urban Studies Journal: https://lnkd.in/e3tUtqvs 🔗 Interested in other publications? Access our comprehensive list: https://lnkd.in/eZtD9fbZ

NEW PAPER: Dr Lewis Abedi Asante, Beverly Akomea Bonsu and Ilse Helbrecht conceptualize 'wetland gentrification' as the African variant on ecological gentrification. Their paper explores the phenomenon in a context of African cities that are experiencing rapid encroachment on urban wetlands, burgeoning urbanization and increasing demand for property development - and interrogates the implications for urban governance. Read --> https://lnkd.in/gAAnYxea

The Ontology of Urban Governance: A Framework for Pathways to Sustainable Urban Transition

Successfull sessions on EU urban and territorial agenda in Namur (B), putting spatial planning at the forefront in urban development. The three Belgian regional authorities made clear that their urban policy is highly relevant and effective, as they are close by and able to understand the different urban conditions at stake. #Belgium24.EU

Two years after its founding, the SUDA • Spatial and Urban Development Agency presents its achievements at the first Georgia National Urban Forum. Numerous ongoing and upcoming urban and regional development projects are underway, whilst at the same time public discussion on the importance of planned development is also being initiated. Thomas Stellmach of TSPA was honoured to support the conference along with Katja Schäfer and Herman Pienaar of UN-Habitat. Thomas hosted one of the four panel discussions, focusing on planning for the rapid growth of Tbilisi’s agglomeration and the needed actions, which SUDA will soon publish in a declaration. Participants called for immediate action, the need for more cooperation among institutions, and the need for further developing trust through transparency and participation. Other calls to action were: to adopt a risk-informed approach to planning with clear regulations, a strategy for protecting the environment, moving towards an adequate mobility system with urban density in the right places, and understanding the Mtskheta-Tbilisi-Rustavi-Gardabani as a single regional system. Keep an eye out for the publication of SUDA's upcoming declaration! Please see also TSPA's journal article: https://lnkd.in/eU5Di6XJ

How do #urban #experiments aimed at #sustainable #transformation succeed? Actors' capacity to 👉 navigate context 👈 is key! Astrid Krisch and I highlighted this in our last European Urban and Regional Studies paper, "Navigating context in experiments: The 'real', the roots, the rationale", which is now published in volume 31, issue 3! 🎉 You can read our take on experimentation for transformation, the three context dimensions in experiments, and #Grätzlmarie, a case of experimental governance in #Vienna, here: https://lnkd.in/emFNz3hd

Check out peer_protocol's #DialogueofUrbanDevelopmentPractices that I moderated earlier this year! Can't wait for the second edition! (Hopefully, my theatrical skills will have improved)

In the wake of attacks by conspiracy theorists, the father of the 15-Minute City concept, Carlos Moreno, is out with a new book that seeks to school the world on his pervasive urban planning concept. #newcomerstocanada #livablecities #doublingdown #internationalstudents #Canada #citiesincanada https://lnkd.in/gYv-XXNj

❗ NEW RELEASE ❗ Wendy Steele's new publication "Australian Urban Policy: Prospects and Pathways" is out now! 📑 Contributors to this book argue that the urban policy gap needs to be addressed. They ask: ❓ How have productive, sustainable and liveable cities so far been enhanced? ❓Where have aspirations fallen short or produced negative outcomes? ❓What approaches are emerging to challenge existing and devise new urban policy settings? "Australian Urban Policy" offers new ideas that challenge policy orthodoxy. Get your copy here: https://lnkd.in/e6ffQPey

In this seminar, Tania Guerrero, Ebru Kurt Özman and João Tonucci reflect on governance in the peripheries with cases from Mexico, Turkey and Brazil. Current approaches to urban governance, often originated in northern contexts, tend to focus on institutionalized actors and formal processes. In contrast, this seminar explored governance in and from the peripheries, in line with recent calls to decenter urban studies and to acknowledge a set of actors, spaces, and processes relegated to the geographical and theoretical periphery. Watch the seminar recording on UGoveRN's YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eymCXTa3