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M.T. Tasan-Kok
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Planners’ role in accommodating citizen disagreement
The case of Dutch urban planning
Citizen disagreement on urban policies and planning decisions is both ubiquitous and fundamental to democracy. Post-political debates debunk the ‘consensus approach’, which is grounded in Habermasian communication theory, for circumventing disagreement. This article presents a co
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A new role for young planners in the Netherlands
Still a Planner's Paradise?
This chapter addresses the question: How do the encounters of young planners with 'the real world' influence their perspectives on planing practice and the planning profession? It is based on research into the way in which planning students and young planning professionals percei
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A new role for young planners in the Netherlands
Still a Planner's Paradise?
This chapter addresses the question: How do the encounters of young planners with 'the real world' influence their perspectives on planing practice and the planning profession? It is based on research into the way in which planning students and young planning professionals percei
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Governing Urban Diversity
Creating Social Cohesion, Social Mobility and Economic Performance in Today’s Hyper-diversified Cities
Report 2h: Fieldwork entrepreneurs in Toronto, Jane-Finch (Canada).
This project is funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme; Theme: SSH.2012.2.2.2-1; Governance of cohesion and diversity in urban contexts.@en
Confronted and Disappointed?
Struggle of Turkish Planners against Authoritarian State-Regulated Urban Development
For many young planners, the noble intentions with going to planning school seem starkly out of place in the neoliberal worlds they have come to inhabit. For some, the huge gap between the power they thought they would have and what they actually do is not only worrying, but also
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Corrigendum
Alienated and politicized? Young planners’ confrontation with entrepreneurial and authoritarian state intervention in urban development in Turkey.(European Planning Studies, (2016), Doi:10.1080/09654313.2015.1135233)
Planning in Turkey is dominated by powerful market interests and authoritarian state regulation, resulting in a conflictual socio-political environment. Caught in the crossfire between interventionist urban policies and a planning education system that is oriented towards the pub
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Urban areas have spatial discontinuities, such as disconnected neighbourhoods, brownfield areas and leftover places. They can be captured by the metaphor of urban porosity. This paper aims to highlight the potential social consequences of urban porosity by creating a ‘porosity in
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Planning Cultures and Histories
The evolution of Planning Systems and Spatial Development Patterns
This book addresses the influences of planning cultures and histories on the temporal evolution of planning systems and spatial development. As well as providing an international comparative perspective on these issues, the contributions to the book also engage in a search for ne
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Planning Cultures and Histories
The evolution of Planning Systems and Spatial Development Patterns
This book addresses the influences of planning cultures and histories on the temporal evolution of planning systems and spatial development. As well as providing an international comparative perspective on these issues, the contributions to the book also engage in a search for ne
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