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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.
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.
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