A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Space and radical planning: Linking protest action and local community self-development
The project researches how protest action of urban social movements may aid to underpin wider and more inclusive local community self-development processes. To that end, the discussion is circumscribed by the notions of space and radical planning. Space, thereupon, constitutes both a ‘reifying’ (after Lefebvre) and ‘heterotopological’ (after Foucault) spatial lens as well as an integrating grid, with which to crosscut across the diverse topics and disciplines that the research comprises: urban research, (urban) planning, (urban) social movements and community organizing/development. Their inherent ‘contradictions’ and complex interactions among them are therewith spatially examined. Furthermore, radical planning alludes to the theory and practice of planning that react to ̶ and somewhat counteract ̶ the consequences of an urban development largely spelled out by a global market rationality, safeguarded by top-down state-led planning mechanisms and that directly impacts dynamics of local community development. Along with that, a case study is incorporated to test, refine and further develop, upon concrete phenomenology, some of the main findings derived from the literature review. The account of Paso Ancho, an urban community in southern San José, Costa Rica, is analyzed throughout the autonomous political organization and actions of its dwellers, which triggered a process of self-steered and inclusive participation by advancing a local development agenda aimed at improving social and spatial conditions. All in all, it is believed that direct community action, in the long run, helps to create a more equal environment ̶ in both social and spatial terms ̶ for it also enhances local participatory democracy within and even beyond official (urban) planning processes.
Space and radical planning: Linking protest action and local community self-development
The project researches how protest action of urban social movements may aid to underpin wider and more inclusive local community self-development processes. To that end, the discussion is circumscribed by the notions of space and radical planning. Space, thereupon, constitutes both a ‘reifying’ (after Lefebvre) and ‘heterotopological’ (after Foucault) spatial lens as well as an integrating grid, with which to crosscut across the diverse topics and disciplines that the research comprises: urban research, (urban) planning, (urban) social movements and community organizing/development. Their inherent ‘contradictions’ and complex interactions among them are therewith spatially examined. Furthermore, radical planning alludes to the theory and practice of planning that react to ̶ and somewhat counteract ̶ the consequences of an urban development largely spelled out by a global market rationality, safeguarded by top-down state-led planning mechanisms and that directly impacts dynamics of local community development. Along with that, a case study is incorporated to test, refine and further develop, upon concrete phenomenology, some of the main findings derived from the literature review. The account of Paso Ancho, an urban community in southern San José, Costa Rica, is analyzed throughout the autonomous political organization and actions of its dwellers, which triggered a process of self-steered and inclusive participation by advancing a local development agenda aimed at improving social and spatial conditions. All in all, it is believed that direct community action, in the long run, helps to create a more equal environment ̶ in both social and spatial terms ̶ for it also enhances local participatory democracy within and even beyond official (urban) planning processes.
Space and radical planning: Linking protest action and local community self-development
Raum und radikale Planung: Protestaktionen und kommunale Selbstentwicklung verknüpfen
Espacio y planificación radical: Uniendo acciones de protesta con un desarrollo local-comunal autónomo
Castillo Ulloa, Ignacio (author) / Technische Universität Berlin (host institution)
2020
Miscellaneous
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
Space and radical planning: Linking protest action and local community self-development
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