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This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It explores how planners can challenge technocratic planning by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and the right to the city into their daily practices. Each chapter delves into those daily practices to answer: What does insurgent planning practice look like in practice? How are radical planners coping with traditional, technocratic planning as practised in most places around the world? And what do they do to advance an agenda of democratisation and the right to the city, counteracting neoliberal forms of governance?
Chapters draw on conversations with planners in several cities around the world, cataloguing insurgent experiences that challenge the status quo of contemporary market-based, exclusionary city-making. Throughout, cross-cutting issues such as gender, race and class are explored to consider ways in which insurgent planners bring diversity into planning.
— Efadul Huq, AAG Review of Books
Since the 1960s, there were pressing pleas and cries to incorporate citizen participation in urban planning. Nowadays, most of the participatory planning attempts, when allowed by the powerholders, have been critically assessed as limited, flawed or even manipulative. This volume opens our eyes and invites to examine these contradictions. The 'insurgent' standpoint helps the authors explore various rich forms of collaboration between planners, scholars, activists and citizens worldwide, especially when challenging the rule of capital and technocrats. Rather than a focus on 'heroic planners', readers will find valuable lessons from practices and processes that contributed to the emancipation of the oppressed once they took the tools of urban planning in their own hands.
— Miguel A. Martínez, Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology, University of Uppsala
If there were ever any doubts that there are 'alternatives' to the neoliberal order, this book helps to revoke them. Inspired by the work of Faranak Miraftab, the contributors provide a rich and diverse set of examples of insurgent planning in both Global North and South. Instead of dwelling on the theoretical coherence of the concept, they offer inspiring cases of how insurgent planning works in particular social contexts. For the planning scholars, practitioners and educators who aspire to prefigure alternative modes of practice, this book is essential reading. It shows that the so-called 'realities' of our time are not how things are, but how they are made to be, and how they can be unmade through disruptive politics of insurgent planning.
— Simin Davoudi, Chair of Town Planning, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, and Co-Director of Centre for Researching Cities, Newcastle University, UK
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in creating a world that is other than the one the neoliberal urban order seduces us to thinking is normal. Offering real case studies of how insurgent planning works in practice across many different geographical and practice contexts, the book provides an overview of the field and insights from diverse geographical and practice applications that illuminate distinct dimensions of insurgent planning and contribute to deepening the conceptual and practical terrain. Drawing together writers from community-based planning cases, researchers and scholars, and planning practitioners the book provides not only a call to action for our times, but the practices to make such action real.
— Libby Porter, Professor of Urban Studies and Director of the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia
No matter from which position insurgent planning is practised, we need to ask whether they contributed to destabilizing the status quo, provoking a just alternative future. I hope this timely and important volume helps readers to see the range of actions and practices of insurgent planning undertaken by various actors in distinct social professional positions. This volume’s contributors help us see that, from wherever we are as residents, as citizens or as professionals, we all have the ability to engage in insurgent planning.
— Faranak Miraftab, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The studies in this book provide us with many examples of head-on collisions within the Liberal State, and no doubt given the urgency of so many urban injustices such confrontations will remain the prime focus of insurgent planning practices. But this brilliant volume also indicates that insurgent planning can produce a prefiguration of an alternative democratic imagination that emerges under the radar of state control and repression. Such practices of insurgent citizenship can also show us how to disrupt the entrenchments of inequality, how to institutionalize, in other words, a regular, predictable, persistent, and reliable democratization of democracy.
— James Holston, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
Roberto Rocco is Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanisation (2019).
Gabriel Silvestre is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University.
Foreword by Faranak Miraftab
1. Introduction: how do you employ an insurgent planner?
Roberto Rocco and Gabriel Silvestre
Part I: Political and Citizenship Practices
2. Insurgent planning and the negotiated position of democratic political practice in Antwerp
Seppe De Blust, Elisabet Van Wymeersch and Stijn Oosterlynck
3. Reinventing invited spaces of citizenship through transgressive participation: Taipei’s "Parks for Children by Children" movement
Erich Hellmer, Ying-Tzu Lin and Pei-Wen Lu
4. A tale of two powers: conditions and personifications of insurgent planners in Jakarta
Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri
5. Insurgent planning in a state of exception: The reopening of the Beirut Pine Forest, Lebanon
Christine Mady, Saskia Ruijsink, Jessica Chemali and Els Keunen
Part II: Academic action
6. Popular plans in counter-hegemonic struggles in Rio de Janeiro: the cases of Vila Autódromo and Vargens
Giselle Tanaka, Fabricio Leal de Oliveira, Luis Régis Coli and Fernanda dos Santos
7. Insurgent planning practices and university-community engagement in popular urbanisation: the urban planning commission in the land reclamation of Guernica, Buenos Aires
Francesca Ferlicca and Beatriz Helena Pedro
8. From data collection to citizenship: Insurgent planning in a citizen science flood-monitoring project in Makassar, Indonesia
Erich Wolff, Michaela F. Prescott and Diego Ramirez-Lovering
Part III: Planning Practice
9. Participatory planning and the insurgent city: The challenges of the right to the city in Belo Horizonte
Gabriel Silvestre
10. Planning beyond the status quo: feminism and insurgency at the Belo Horizonte City Council during the approval of the city masterplan
Higor Rafael de Souza Carvalho and Mariana Belmon
11. "Either they want it or not": Turkey’s Chamber of City Planners as a catalyst for insurgency in planning
Duygu Cihanger Ribeiro, José Duarte Ribeiro and Ceren Tosun
12. Ken Sterrett: insurgent urbanism in Belfast's time of troubles
Agustina Martire and Mura Quigley
13. Conclusion: insurgent planning practice in comparative perspective
Roberto Rocco and Gabriel Silvestre