The Routledge Companion to Urban Planning

 1. Introduction: Planning for the Worlds Between

Nicholas Phelps, Sai Balakrishnan and Luisa Sotomayor 

PART I CONCEPTS: How we conceive the urban of urban planning

FORM

2. Old / New: (Re)thinking Urban Planning and Preservation Care in the Lifecycle of Cities

Jennifer Minner

 3. Intensive / Extended: Making Space Between Intensive and Extended Urbanization

Roger Keil

4. Transversal Connections: Seeing Cities from Other Spaces

Teresa Caldeira

KNOWLEDGES

5. Western / Other epistemologies: Radical Unknowability and Urban Life

 AbdouMaliq Simone

6. Neoliberal / Insurgent: Dichotomous Planning in Chile

Francisco Vergara and Martín Arias Loyola

 7. Colonial/Postcolonial: Instrumentalizing Colonial Legacies in Contemporary Cities

Aarthi Janakiraman

METHOD

8.     Rational-comprehensive / Storytelling: Provoking Alternative Urban Imaginaries

Edgar Pieterse

9.     Seen / Unseen: Planning’s Blind Spots

Ash Alam and Etienne Nel

10.  Sacred / Secular: Religion beyond Belief in Urban Planning

Babak Manouchehrifar

PEDAGOGY

11.  Inside / Out: Urban Planning and the University

Jean Paul Addie

12.  Scholar / Activist: Theory and Praxis in Urban Planning

Kenton Card, Andrew Ward and Loretta Lees

PART II SUBSTANCE: What urban planning seeks to operate on

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

13.  Just / Carceral: Planning for the Prison

Bruna Angotti, Graham Denyer Willis, Pedro Mendes Loureir, and Luiz Fernando Toledo

14.  The Public / Private City: Reconsidering Property towards Reparative Climate Futures

Mia Charlene White

15.   Business as Usual/Experimentation: Pathways to Urban Transformation

Vanesa Castán Broto 

LAND AND HOUSING

16.  Settling / Unsettling: Urban Indigenous Presence and Planning in the Settler Colonial Now

Mariana Valverde and Mayana Slobodian

17.  Use / Exchange: Value in Land Use Planning and Zoning

Carl Grodach

18.  Permanent / Temporary: The Bounded Temporality of Planning

Ali MadaniPour

MOBILITY

19.  Fixity / Motion: The relational politics of (im)mobility in planning

Thomas Van Laake

20.  Safe / Unsafe: Breaking the Mobility Binary through Feminist Urban Planning

Sara Ortiz Escalante

21.  Homegrown / Imported policies: Understanding the travels of planning policy

Ian Cook

NEEDS

22.  Comprehensive / Improvised: Informality and the Master Plan in Urban India

Gautam Bhan

23.  Plenty / Hungry: Reimagining Abundance, Scarcity, and Justice in Food Systems Planning

Charisma Acey

24.  Healthy / Unhealthy: People, Place, and Politics of healthy cities

Shenjing He and Xiang Yan

PART III PRINCIPLES: The spirit and purpose of planning

JUSTICE

25.  Increments Earned / Unearned: Implications for Fiscally Sustainable and Equitable Urban Development

Enrique Silva

26.  Livable / Unlivable: Livable Cities and the Paradox of Black (Un)Livability

Jamilla Mohamud and Stefan Kipfer

27.  Colonialism / Decolonization: From Acknowledgement to Praxis in Planning Education

Magdalena Ugarte

INCLUSION

28.  Young / Old: A Critique of Age Segregation in Planning

 Samantha Biglieri and Maxwell Hartt

29.  Abled / Disabled: Understanding the spectrum of (dis)ability

 Rob Imrie

30.  Hetero / Queer city: Sanctuaries, Traps, and Locating Lesbian Aging-in-Place

 Marisa Tureski

SUSTAINABILITY

31.  Nature / Economy: Towards Nature-Economy Nexus Thinking in the Age of Multiple Crises

Sebastian Fastenrath and Leonard Khwang-Gil Lemke

32.  Disastrous / Resilient City: Acknowledging the Difference between Prescription and Normativity

Alan March

33.  Capitalist / Alternative Economy: Diverse Economies in Urban Planning

Sara Tornabene and Antonio Raciti

CONCLUSION

34.  Conclusion: Thinking, Writing and Acting in and for the Worlds Between

Nicholas Phelps, Luisa Sotomayor and Sai Balakrishnan

Biography

Luisa Sotomayor is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and Director of Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research examines urban inequality through the lenses of governance, urban politics, and spatial planning with a focus on housing precarity, socio-legal exclusions, and the emergence of new socio-spatial peripheries in Latin America and Canada.

Nicholas A. Phelps is Chair of Urban Planning and Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne and a Visiting Professor in the School of Architecture at Southeast University, China. He is the author of The Urban Planning Imagination, and his interests cover planning theory and the planning and politics of suburbanization.  

Sai Balakrishnan is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley. Her research and teaching broadly pivot around the political economy of urbanization, planning institutions in the global south, and the spatial politics of land-use and property. She is the author of Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations along Urban Corridors in India (2019). 

"This is a spectacularly assembled and provocatively conceived contribution to planning theory and practice that will upend traditional views of the planning profession, most particularly by challenging the standard epistemologies through which the discipline has operated for so long. In its questioning of conceptual binaries and its claims that there are no simplified let alone universal strategies for advancing just and equitable change, this engaged set of reflections on the "Worlds In Between" is an important albeit somewhat unsettling read. It offers no easy answers. Even so, it should and indeed must be a companion for any scholar or practitioner with the courage to call out the disempowering classifications, narrow-minded assumptions, and terminological ambiguities that routinely  — and sometimes inadvertently — strengthen the hands of the strong while ignoring the subjectivity of the weak, whether in the Global North or South."

-- Diane E. Davis, Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard GSD, CIFAR Fellow and Co-Director, Humanity's Urban Future. 

 "The Companion is a highly welcomed addition to scholarship in planning. It covers a wide range of topics written by a diverse group of contributors who interrogate the conventional binary divisions between city and non-city, human and nature and public and private. Focusing on the ‘in-between’ these categories, they unsettle deep-seated dualities in planning. The volume is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners who are interested and critically engaged in the contested

-- Simin Davoudi, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK

"Featuring a line-up of authoritative and well-known contributors, this thought-provoking book unsettles conventional understandings of urban planning as both an academic discipline and a professional practice. The collection offers glimpses of the world from novel perspectives. Through deconstructing problematic categories and classification schemes, the authors and editors do an excellent job of significantly expanding the horizons of planning."

-- Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London, UK.

"Sotomayor, Phelps, and Balakrishnan have assembled a series of critical interventions at the cutting edge of recent research in the field.  The Routledge Companion to Urban Planning marks an important and innovative contribution  that disrupts existing binaries that have permeated the discipline."

-- Yasminah Beebeejaun, Professor, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL