What causes gaps in strategic and operational planning? Check out this new article that analyzes the experiences of planners in Sweden, using residential housing segregation reduction as an example. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this new article, Luca Bertolini connects "prefigurative planning" to ideas of experimentation, thus, addressing critiques that experimental urbanism fails to result in lasting change while also attempting to engage the utopian imagination. Open Access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are planners learning to improve their plans over time? A new article by Maria Conroy connects the need for planners to incorporate reflection with the ability to learn how to improve plan quality, but shows how constraints limit reflective practices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Post-Growth Planning. How can planning efforts disrupt the growth system and initiate a just eco-social transition? New article from Romero-Martinez, Romero-Padilla, and del Castillo-Sanchez. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💡Soft planning. In a newly published article, Tuomas Ilmavirta analyzes how "soft planning" (discursive planning, temporary uses of space, and cultural planning) are used in regeneration practices in Helsinki, Finland. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💜 "What Can I, and Others, Do to Change Things?" Patsy Healey (1940–2024): In Her Own Words. Heather Campbell and Theo Lim have selected extracts of Patsy's writings in Planning Theory & Practice over the years. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In their newly published research article, Mens et al use three Dutch cases to illustrate how bottom-up urban development initiators create social value through self-organization in a market-dominated context. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In "Bioregionalism and Degrowth: Addressing the Urban-Other Divide" Johanna Waldenberger and Federico Savini propose a degrowth planning framework consisting of five dimensions that move us beyond both growth-based urbanization and the urban-other divide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In their article, "On the Cognitive Mechanics of Planning Judgment" authors Dan Milz, Meaghan McSorley, Shannon Thayer, and Curt Gervich illustrate how heuristics characterize judgments in planning by describing two examples from a planning process in NY State. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🥳 Congratulations to Harriet Dunn for receiving the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 2025 Best Published Paper Award for her article "Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent," published in Planning Theory & Practice!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In their new article, Cai, Gerrits, and Edelenbos analyze China's Multi-Plan Integration Reform (MPI) effort, which began in the 1990s. The article contains useful information about China's complicated planning structure, as well as the MPI policy implementation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Democracy as Lived Experience. In his article "The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey's Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy" @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social reflects on two major themes in Patsy Healey's work: democracy and epistemology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new Interface collection edited by John Forester includes contributions from twelve planning practitioners, researchers, and educators, each reflecting on where they draw their inspiration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Structure and agency in property markets. In another contribution in our SI honoring the impact and legacy of Patsy Healey, Andre Legarza picks up on "Healey’s call for a robust framework to understand the character of property markets and urban change." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As part of the Planning Research Matters series on housing, a collection of papers explores how community-led housing can help solve the unaffordable housing crisis on both sides of the Atlantic: www.rtpi.org.uk/policy-and-r... Interface is a free-to-access section within @planningtheory.bsky.social

"Here, we knew her as the 'can-do academic,' " writes David Bull, retired Director of Planning and Transportation in Wooler, UK, on Patsy Healey. Bull remembers Patsy in our special issue dedicated her life and contributions to the planning field www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As part of a special issue of Planning Theory and Practice remembering and reflecting on the life and work of Patsy Healey, Prof Bish Sanyal @mitdusp.bsky.social has contributed a reflection on how Healey saw the universal and the contingent in planning theory: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking for sessions to attend at the International Conference on Urban Affairs @uaanews.bsky.social next week April 15 - 19 in Vancouver, BC? Check out the sessions of these recent Planning Theory & Practice authors!

📖 Pragmatic Spatial Planning. Nicolas Paquet reviews Charlie Hoch's 2019 book Pragmatic Spatial Planning: Practical Theory for Professionals, which is an update to the pragmatist ideas of Dewey, James, and Pierce. Paquet describes the book's contributions here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Buitelaar, Lebbing, van den Hurk, and van Karnenbeek show how through zoning, developers engage in ‘institutional entrepreneurship,’ shaping the complex and mutual relationship between planning decisions and developers’ strategies in Utrecht, Netherlands. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does urban science -- using computational methods & data analysis to address urban planning challenges -- perpetuate historical racial inequities & if so, how could we realize a reparative urban science? Wonyoung So explores in an article for @planningtheory.bsky.social. More: bit.ly/soReparative...

Examining Finnish municipalities, Pauliina Krigsholm shows how higher-level national aims in land policy, such as sustainability agendas, may appear in local policies, but how ultimately, locally-embedded motives tend to be operationalized more fully. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How can planners address ableism in participatory processes? The authors of this new PTP article suggest: (1) identifying communication norms; (2) considering processes of identity formation; and (3) recognizing and disrupt dominant narratives. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new planning system in Ukraine. Anisimov, Smirnova, and Dulko document changes in Ukraine's planning system leading up to a critical juncture in 2020, which moved Ukraine away from post-soviet path-dependence, changing the functioning of their planning system. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With the rise of generative AI tools and the use of words in brazenly untruthful ways by rising right-wing ideologues, what does the production of words mean today? @chaolim85.bsky.social muses on this question in his editorial for Planning Theory & Practice: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new Interface collection considers how planners can/should view industrial lands: "attention to industrial land and activity is often missing from planning, which is striking given the role of industry on climate change and social equity." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In her article "Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent" Harriet Dunn shows how the state is reframed as a "guardian" of the public interest to redefine planning as supporting conservatism, rather than as a means for transformative change. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wondering about what makes a 'just' energy transition? Check out this Interface collection, edited by Fayola Jacobs, Elise Harrington, and Ward Lyles: #OpenAccess. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... extraction-dependent communities, informal settlement, debt/finance, AI, benefits capture and more!

In the latest editorial article in PTP, Lisa Bates discusses reasons for rejecting the use of AI: computers can never be held accountable, and the energy resources needed to run generative AI algorithms ought to make us think twice simply accepting their use. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In city planning, context ought to be foreground, not background. Here are six essays in @planningtheory.bsky.social wrestling with context. My essay deals with the city fo Srinagar in Kashmir. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Open access.

Wondering about the Interface section of our journal? We created a short video (starring Dr Lisa Bates!) explaining this unique article type. Interfaces collect shorter pieces by multiple authors on a topic, promoting dialogue between planning researchers and practitioners. youtu.be/tOzn_-cyXPw?...

For those who will be in Seattle for ACSP this week, please join on Saturday (1:30 - 2:45pm) at our roundtable honoring the memory of Patsy Healey (1940 - 2024), the first Senior Editor of Planning Theory & Practice.

📣 2023 - 2024 Planning Theory & Practice authors at ACSP! Have you started planning your sessions? We've compiled the talks and roundtables that 2023 - 2024 PTP authors will be presenting at the conference. Be sure to check out what our authors are up to now~

P Stephens reviews AD Rodriguez's book "Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing." "The book calls upon planners to understand so-called 'deviant' spatial politics...as a means to create spaces for political participation." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You've probably heard and thought about 'systems' in urban planning, but did you know that the concept of systems has very different connotations in different fields? In this new article, Phelps distinguishes between four approaches to "systems" in urban planning: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our newest Interface collection is out! "On Theories and Practices of Collective Action and Sustained Cooperation" edited by Atul Pokharel and John Forester. Six #OpenAccess contributions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"[H]ow can you have a profession (whose raison d’être is the application of expert knowledge) if you argue that there is no such thing as expert knowledge, only different opinions to be brought together?" (Allmendinger, 2009). Mantysalo, Westin, & Mattila discuss: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In the latest editorial for Planning Theory & Practice, Heather Campbell reflects on Patsy Healey's contribution to the practice, and intellectual development, of Planning as a field and discipline. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Although marked by a profound sense of loss, it nonetheless feels appropriate that this issue of the journal contains a review of Patsy Healey’s final book. Stephen Connelly's review of Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this article, Nidhi Subramanyam conducts an in-depth ethnographic study of how "frontline planners" make everyday decisions under conditions of uncertainty and information scarcity to provide water supply services to residents in Tiruppur, India. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In their article Yael Savaya and Nurit Alfasi offer a three-fold alternative framework to the top-down 'comprehensive' model of planning. One that involves: complexity, responsibility, and care. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In her article "Planning for the Future of Onshore Wind Farms through Adopting a Broader Temporal Approach" author @RebeccaWindemer uses in-depth case studies of four onshore wind farms in the UK to develop a framework of "infrastructure temporalities." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In "The Challenged Interplay of Integrative Aims and Shared Leadership: Experiences From Nordic Practice" Susa Eräranta explores tensions between 2 organizational approaches: integrative #planning practices and self organization. #OpenAccess #complexity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In their article "Towards Better (Territorial) Solutions for Displaced People: The Tibetan Model" R Frilund and K Wangdu discuss alternatives for refugee camps by exploring the unique settlements formed by #Tibetan refugees in #India. #refugeerights www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this Interface collection "The #Biodiversity Crisis – Planning for Nature Recovery?" editors Mark Scott and Gavin Parker compile seven pieces that identify the urgent need for biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Coinciding with this week's Royal Town Planning Institute's Planner Live North Conference in Manchester, UK, we have curated a Virtual Special Issue (2001 - 2022) of 14 articles relating to #StrategicPlanning. All articles are available free and #OpenAccess. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpt...

Planning Theory & Practice is deeply saddened to learn the news that Professor Emeritus Patsy Healey died last week. Patsy was the first Senior Editor of PT&P. She was the journal’s guiding inspiration, and we are grateful for the opportunity to learn from such a scholar.

Here Ada H.Y. Lee and Phil Allmendinger dissect Hong Kong's 2018 Land Supply Consultation, which used the idea of #consensus as a legitimizing tool, and problem framing as a way to restrict the political space for debate. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #planning #politics #OpenAccess

How are particular citizens' knowledges deemed credible in planning processes? This Interface collection "‘Seeing Like a Citizen’: Rethinking City Street Transformations through the Lens of Epistemic Justice" incl cases in spatial and transport planning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Free article from the archives! In "The Crisis of Trust and Planning" (2007), Christopher Swain and Malcolm Tait present 4 reasons; the rise of: 1) the risk society 2) the pluralistic society 3) the rights-based society 4) advanced liberalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....