Olivier Legrand

Yiftachel o., Little J., Hedgcock D, Alexander I. (2002), The Power of Planning : Spaces of Control and Transformation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p.236 p.1 This introduction aims to construct a critical and conceptual foundation for the following chapters. It is not meant to offer a thorough review of the literature, but rather to delineate five key areas of deficiency in mainstream planning research, theory and thought. These include: (a) a confused demarcation of disciplinary boundaries; (b) a dominance of professional perspectives; (c) a privileging of process over substance; (d) a slighting of planning’s spatial dimensions; and (e) the unchallenged acceptance of planning’s benevolent power The book seeks to openly study the power of planning to shape societal relations, and document and the manifold manifestations of that power: emancipatory, reformist, progressive, normalizing, legitimizing, regressive and oppressive. p.3 Hence, for example, Italian scholars have often […]

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        Nicosia and Belfast are two faces of the same coin; the differences between the two cities can be easily identified. The Nicosia partition is uniform and continual; the Belfast partition is multiform and diffuse. There are two opposing principles of crisis management: abnormal problems can be solved via normal policy-making strategies (Belfast), or town planning can be a part of the peace building process (Nicosia). But in Belfast and Nicosia the most acute and perceived spatial divisions are not simply those of class or culture but of national identity. The border that divides both islands remains the key issue that is replicated within the cities.           Urban space has become the main place where the claims for sovereignty are expressed. Urban violence and segregation however are still thinking of as a conflict outcome. To overcome this approach sovereignty must be thought of not as a contracted-good but as a multi-scale transaction or relation. This approach stresses […]