Conveners
T_14 ETHICS, VALUES AND PLANNING: L1 - Conceptions of Justice in Planning
- Stefano Moroni (Polytechnic University of Milan)
- ERHAN KURTARIR (YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY)
T_14 ETHICS, VALUES AND PLANNING: L2 - Environmental Ethics and Planning
- Stefano Cozzolino (ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development)
- Busra Ince
T_14 ETHICS, VALUES AND PLANNING: L3 - Ethical Challenges of Innovation in Planning
- Anita De Franco (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Polytechnic University of Milan)
- ERHAN KURTARIR (YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY)
T_14 ETHICS, VALUES AND PLANNING: L4 - Urban Geography and Institutional Ethics
- Brett Allen Slack
- Stefano Cozzolino (ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development)
T_14 ETHICS, VALUES AND PLANNING: L5 - Values Behind Quality Judgements
- Anita De Franco (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Polytechnic University of Milan)
- ERHAN KURTARIR (YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY)
Urban planning plays a crucial role in advancing social justice, public health, and gender equity in parallel. Increasingly, scholars are investigating the fieldโs potential to simultaneously enhance outcomes across all three areas through planning for gender health justice. This scoping review assesses the extent to which planners are incorporating gender in healthy cities scholarship,...
Many planning theorists agree that justice is one, if not the primary, goal of planning. In planning practice and policymaking, phrases such as โinclusive planningโ or โequitable designโ also indicate the key role of justice considerations in the planning profession. A normative position towards justice issues is present in every planning task, albeit this stance often remains implicit....
Participatory planning in Brazil is frequently celebrated as a cornerstone of urban governance designed to foster sociospatial justice. However, its implementation exposes significant ethical and operational challenges. This paper examines how contemporary master plans, developed in the nationโs major metropolises, are influenced by moralized narratives that oversimplify the complexities of...
The call for justice is omnipresent in the planning of the energy transition, both in academia and policy practice. Over the past decades, research on justice has flourished, resulting in various frameworks and conceptualizations of justice (Basta, 2016; Fainstein, 2010; Stein and Harper, 2005; Weghorst, Buitelaar, and Pelzer, 2024). Despite the growing academic attention to justice and its...
The spatial decisions made by regulators and policy makers have been formulated through evolving practices and incorporate a range of values from multiple sources. This applies to both terrestrial planning and marine planning but is particularly complex at the coast where regulatory and policy regimes overlap. The way is which diverse values are considered within these regulatory and policy...
Flood risk management (FRM) in the Netherlands is historically rooted in a protectionist discourse, driven by large-scale interventions in the 20th century to mitigate fluvial and coastal flood risks (Kaufmann et al., 2018). However, the growing impacts of climate change, such as extreme weather events and rising sea levels, have intensified calls for more adaptive policies. These policies are...
Bayramoฤlu, historically known as Philokrene and dating back to the 14th century, stands out as one of Istanbulโs coastal settlements. After the 1970s, it was reshaped as a holiday area extending beyond the city limits in response to Istanbulโs expanding urbanization dynamics. Located on the Bayramoฤlu peninsula, the รbitaล Coastal Site was designed as an alternative holiday settlement to...
As initiatives in recent years have emerged in both the public and private sector experimenting with new and increasingly intelligent technologies in the city, privacy has become an important topic of scholarly discussion. However, relatively few authors have focused exclusively on the particular toll these, especially AI-driven, technologies may take on the privacy of the homeless. Not only...
In an era of global challenges and crises, multi-spatial and multi-temporal data have become essential for the effective monitoring of urban change and the evaluation of policy success across administrative boundaries. However, data monopoliesโwherein commercial entities and selected institutions exercise exclusive control over access to critical geospatial datasetsโimpede transparency, public...
Planners today face an unprecedented dual challenge: addressing the immediate demands of crises like climate change, social inequality, and economic instability while ensuring justice and equity in the long term. These overlapping crises often intensify existing disparities, compelling planners to critically engage with ethical principles as a guide for transformative action. This paper delves...
The paper aims at exploring how models of urban justice, which in the Twentieth century have been essentially based on the equal distribution in space of services and accessibility opportunities, can be imagined and redesigned in an era, in which inhabited spaces tend increasingly to be a complex mix between spaces in the digital and in the physical spheres, hybrid spaces or hybridscapes....
This study explores analytically and critically perspective religion-based intentional communities in contemporary contexts as geographies of voluntary segregation and commitment. These religious communal settings intentionally formed by individuals seeking to freely and collectively practice their religion. They purposefully create self-segrageted closed entities where religious practices and...
Background
In the contemporary context of the discipline of urban planning in research and design, as well as in professional engineering practice of shaping urban spaces there is an unspoken questioning of paradigm. What is a good space, how to evaluate its quality and functioning? Various methods are being elaborated to describe and quantify spatial qualities or poor features. The...
This paper will present emerging findings from new research, commissioned by the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK), on flexibility and indeterminacy in new town planning around the world. The research has been timed so that its publication coincides with the UK Governmentโs announcement of locations for a new generation of new towns in England.
New towns are characterised as large,...
The discussion on โterritorial governanceโ has gained traction in the last decade, and it has been relaunched recently as a consequence of the problems created for institutions by the Covid-19 pandemic. The issue of territorial governance is particularly important because it invites us to revisit certain traditional ideas concerning institutions, their tasks, and the scale and level of...
This presentation will discuss the empirical findings of our forthcoming article, which examines the role of architectural aesthetics in contemporary urban planning debates. While discussions on justice in planning typically focus on issues such as housing, infrastructure, and sustainability, the aesthetic qualities of the built environment remain relatively overlooked. However, the public...
Emotional bonds between people and their neighborhoods are important for urban planning because they influence how individuals engage with and contribute to their communities. These bonds create a sense of belonging, attachment, and identity that can enhance the quality of life and foster stronger, more resilient neighborhoods. These bonds have been extensively studied, primarily under the...
For many decades, the rate of housing construction in England has consistently failed to meet the growing demand. Despite longstanding policies favouring a 'brownfield first' approach, significant densification in suburban areas remains elusive. Densifying suburbs presents a multifaceted challenge, requiring a balance between increasing housing supply and preserving the local character,...
The topic of urban beauty is often addressed superficially; certainly, it is under-discussed. Today, a long architectural and compositional tradition still heavily influences the perspectives and value judgments of experts, leading to the tendency to believe that the experience of beauty is confined to the physical, visual, and compositional characteristics of the built environment....
The need for justice is particularly acute in public space: a critical site in which democracy is expressed and differences negotiated and affirmed (Harvey, 1992; Low, 2013; Mitchell, 2003). The design, distribution, and accessibility of public space shape the experience of the cityโoffering avenues to address socio-spatial segregation, fostering diverse cultural expression, and serving as a...
Over the past few decades, Shezidao (Shezi Island) has faced strict development restrictions due to its designation as a โrestricted development zoneโ under the Flood Prevention Plan for the Taipei Metropolitan Area. These constraints have led to a prolonged and involuntary stagnation of growth. In response, the previous Taipei city government introduced the "Ecological Shezidao" master plan,...
Since the turn of the millennium, โcivic engagementโ has been incorporated into the concept of innovation districts as a panacea for urban development problems, and the role of community in promoting the quality of place in innovation districts has been increasingly emphasized as a natural consequence of the tendency of national governmental institutions to decentralize responsibilities to...
This paper presents an initial set of thoughts around the idea that professional disciplines โ in the ways that they interact with each other (and how they act in the world generally) โ can demonstrate many of the characteristics of a โpersonalityโ. Because planning almost invariably finds itself embedded in interdisciplinary, cross disciplinary and transdisciplinary environments (Davoudi,...
The benefits and burdens of large infrastructure projects are strongly variegated across society and biological species in space and time. Planning invariably involves making trade-offs and justifying them. Equity and justice have long been on plannersโ agendas, but few have attempted to operationalise them into decision-support methods.
Existing (and often mandated) methods, such as...
Planning practice is a key issue not only to understand the deeper nature of planning system, but also to defend good planning (Parker and Maidment, 2024). It is formulated by the blurring borders of formal paths โ that are related to laws, rules and open democratic processes- and informal mechanisms, which include shadow processes of influence, negotiations and communicative power. Planning...
In November 2021, the Irish housing minister announced the most ambitious building programme in the history of the State. Housing for All promised to deliver 30,000 new homes per year to the end of the decade, and thus resolve once and for all Irelandโs emblematic post-recession โcrisisโ (DHLGH, 2021). The same month, the governmentโs Climate Action Plan was released, providing a roadmap to...
Urban vandalism, characterized by the deliberate destruction or defacement of public or private property, has emerged as a critical issue in Indian cities.Urban vandalism, viewed as simple delinquency, reveals profound socio-cultural processes inside India's swiftly changing urban setting. However prevalent, it is insufficiently examined within the Indian setting, especially regarding...
The planning project has always been perceived as values-driven as result of the professionโs claimed ability to act in the Public Interest. Ethical matters have received significant scholarly attention and are enshrined in codes of practice such as professional charters. Yet, in countries such as the UK, the modus operandi of planning has changed profoundly in the last decade. Research...
