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CALL FOR PAPERS AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 21-25, 2015

Social movements and urban planning: The learning gap

Organizers: Tuna Tasan-Kok (TU Delft, The Netherlands), Basak Demires-Ozkul (ITU, Turkey) and Ayda Eraydin (METU, Turkey)

Social movements have transcended boundaries and appear in multiple locations across large cities. Their multiple manifestos are spread in real time through communication channels and social media across the globe. New technologies allow for the multiplicity of viewpoints to be reflected during the transmission of the manifestos and the complexity of the learning to be preserved. These are, then, embedded in new forms of collective action either at the originating city or in other cities. The context of urban movements has substantially changed since the 2000s. Despite intensive literature on the changing characteristics and processes of urban social movements, studies that link these movements to urban planning, policy and practice, as a means of transforming the socio-political characteristics of society, are limited (Eraydin and Tasan-Kok, 2013).

n this session we aim to find studies that tackle to what extent the ‘learning’ and the ‘knowledge’ (Friedman 1979) in the ongoing cycle of these actions are transferred to urban planning practices. Planning is rendered functionless in regards to neoliberal interventions and large-scale social movements in response to these interventions. Since these interventions have been fragmented (large-scale project-led development, property-led, mega projects, neighbourhood redevelopment and regeneration projects, etc) the outcome of the social movements are also fragmented. Although the city responds to several interventions, and the policy makers at different scales respond to demands or ideas of the people, this is not happening systematically. However, these ‘responsive learning processes’ began to turn into ‘interactive learning processes’ in the last years. These initiatives have aimed to incorporate social responses or movements to new urban development processes in the form of formal or informal planning practices. This session aims to put together case studies that illustrate these interactive learning processes between planning and social movements, while seeking answers to the following questions: How can planning respond to multiple voices of social movements? What new learning processes are transferred from social movements to planning practices? And to what extent these experiences may lead to new planning paradigms ?

Within this scope we are open to a wide range of contributions that traverse multiple formats:

· Papers that illustrate empirical work on planning practice and social movements;

· Papers that collect case studies on the transfer of knowledge from social movements to planning processes;

· Studies that focus on the change of urban policies in connection to social movements;

· Case studies that show changes in the city/neighbourhood following social movements;

· Papers on the dissemination and collection of planning ideas/practices coming from social movements through new technologies (ie. social media, crowdsourcing)

Authors are invited to submit 250 word abstracts to Tuna Tasan-Kok ([log in to unmask]) and Basak Demires-Ozkul ([log in to unmask]), Ayda Eraydin ([log in to unmask]) by October 6. Please feel free to contact us with questions or to discuss potential paper topics. You can see more details at http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers

References

Eraydin, A. and Tasan-Kok, T. (2014) State response to contemporary urban movements in Turkey: A critical overview of state entrepreneurialism and authoritarian interventions. Antipode, 46(1), pp. 110–129

Friedman, J (1979) The good society. Boston, MIT Press.

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Dr. Tuna Tasan-Kok

TU Delft | OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment | Jaffalaan 9, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands

T +31 (0)15–278 55 90 | E m.t.tasan-kok@tudelft/nl |

http://www.otb.tudelft.nl/over-otb/a-z-medewerkers/alle-medewerkers/mw-dr-mt-tuna-tasan-kok/ |

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New book:

Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning (2012, Springer)

http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/population+studies/book/978-94-007-5475-1