Call for papers: Planning for publics: Reconceptualising the governance of the commons in relation to the margins
This special issue examines planning for the commons by interrogating the gap between aspirational planning, development policy and the practicalities of implementation and management. It analyses how this gap shapes the governance of shared spaces and everyday transactions, with consequences for spatial justice and for resilient, sustainable urban futures.
Special issue eds.:
Karina Landman, karina.landman@up.ac.za;
Christine Mady, christine.mady@aalto.fi
We invite contributions from around the globe that interrogate the relationship between urban planning and commoning. We welcome studies that approach commoning from the margins. Submissions may be empirical or theoretical and should examine actors involved in commoning and their roles; governance systems; pubic goods provided to inform how planning instruments, policies, and urban management enable or constrain commoning; how governance arrangements (formal and informal) shape access, use, redistribution, and stewardship; and what design, policy, or organisational innovations advance just, resilient commons in everyday urban life; domains of commons (e.g. natural, infrastructural, knowledge, social, or care); types of margins (e.g. peripheral districts, informal settlements, displaced communities, or marginalised groups); mechanisms that address conflict, recognition, risks, sustainability; comparative case studies, participatory research, policy and institutional analysis, design experiments, historical accounts, resource allocation.
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