Insurgent Planning Practice

Roberto Rocco is Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanisation (2019). Gabriel Silvestre is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University.

• Foreword by Faranak Miraftab1. Introduction: how do you employ an insurgent planner? Roberto Rocco and Gabriel SilvestrePart I: Political and Citizenship Practices2. Insurgent planning and the negotiated position of democratic political practice in Antwerp Seppe De Blust, Elisabet Van Wymeersch and Stijn Oosterlynck3. Reinventing invited spaces of citizenship through transgressive participation: Taipei’s "Parks for Children by Children" movement Erich Hellmer, Ying-Tzu Lin and Pei-Wen Lu4. A tale of two powers: conditions and personifications of insurgent planners in Jakarta Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri5. Insurgent planning in a state of exception: The reopening of the Beirut Pine Forest, Lebanon Christine Mady, Saskia Ruijsink, Jessica Chemali and Els KeunenPart II: Academic action6. 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 Santos7. 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 Pedro8. 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-LoveringPart III: Planning Practice9. Participatory planning and the insurgent city: The challenges of the right to the city in Belo Horizonte Gabriel Silvestre10. 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 Belmon11. "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 Tosun12. Ken Sterrett: insurgent urbanism in Belfast's time of troubles Agustina Martire and Mura Quigley13. Conclusion: insurgent planning practice in comparative perspective Roberto Rocco and Gabriel Silvestre

A timely and important contribution to the scholarly conversations on radical, insurgent, and pluriversal planning practices... reinvigorates geography and urban planning by foregrounding the everyday, messy, situated practices of diverse configurations of dissidence against technocratic and neoliberal city-making... the volume’s strength lies in its empirical richness and its attempt to make visible the unruly muddiness of insurgent praxis... for scholars and practitioners invested in urban politics, Insurgent Planning Practice offers valuable insights and provides critical instances to think with and learn from about the future of insurgent planning in an era of escalating polycrises.