This research explores how spatial practitioners can adequately apply justice in their work, without them resorting to a (false) universal conception of justice. To do so, I collaborated with thirt...

This article explores decolonial cracks as the everyday decolonial planning practices through which Indigenous Peoples navigate and disrupt colonial planning systems in four regions: Aotearoa New Z...

This paper articulates a framework for considering the relevance of trauma in planning. Planners may encounter trauma as either a social-psychological condition or as a political claim, with distin...

While walking is recognised as being good for both health and environmental sustainability, the “goods” of walking are curtailed for the many citizens who experience gender-based street harassment....

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Street space transformations are increasingly being used to reduce car traffic in cities. In these processes, conflict is seen to emerge unpredictably and manifest in various, sometimes unexpected ...

This article addresses an observed gap in the plan quality evaluation literature and methodology by developing additional evaluation criteria to reflect the legislative quality of plans. The analys...

This paper examines the gendered challenges faced by planning researchers at the outset of fieldwork, offering a reflexive and holistic analysis of researcher identity, conflicting positionalities,...

This article advances planning theory by extending critical pragmatism to a development organization. It develops a framework for understanding how practitioners may exercise discretion and experti...

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2026)

The paper advances a more-than-human perspective on planning events and contributes to broader understandings of public space development. It traces the transformation of the private Hollenderhagen...

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The article discusses challenges students encounter in Community Engaged Learning (CEL) classes in urban planning, asking: How can urban planning education more effectively address CEL challenges a...

In December 2025, a roundtable of ecologists and planners in Chicago crystallized a recurring obstacle to climate adaptation work: “We do not share the same timescales with you.” This article argue...

Administrative leadership plays a critical role in navigating institutional complexity in urban planning, yet remains underdeveloped in planning research. This study examines how administrative lea...

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2026)

Planning decisions are frequently impeded by an inadequate understanding of complex urban environments, necessitating data-driven and creative strategies. Based on a developed research question on ...

The performative role of visualisations, particularly photorealistic renderings, has been acknowledged in planning literature. However, how planners engage with them remains understudied. This pape...

The equitable distribution of infrastructure is a central concern of planning theory and practice. Developing an inter-urban comparison of bicycle equity policies in Mexico City and Toronto, the pa...

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This paper examines the social learning process among a group of community resident and academic researchers working together on a Participatory Action Research study exploring the relationship bet...

Scholars have showed how an emerging climate urbanism places carbon mitigation at the center of urban policy, yet limited attention has been devoted to its ramifications for planning and the role o...

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Despite growing recognition of time in planning research, few studies explore the role of time in participatory planning contexts. Drawing on critical temporal scholarship, this paper develops an a...

This paper discusses how everyday practices within a municipal organisation contribute to the gap between strategic and operational spatial planning. We use reduced residential segregation as an ex...

Experimentation allows planning to explore ways of “thinking, doing, organising” beyond the status quo, as if the world was a radically different one. However, there is limited evidence of its impa...

I examine the use of prior plans for reflection and learning when developing new comprehensive plans in selected U.S. communities. Using a conceptual framework of plan influences, survey data, and ...

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2025)

This paper analyses the practices of soft planning in the regeneration of Kalasatama, Helsinki, by asking how and why informal planning approaches have been used in the planning and development of ...

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2025)

This article examines how bottom-up urban development initiators create social value through self-organization in a market-dominated context. Using a multiple case study and a framework combining c...

Scale and spatial politics are central to degrowth research, yet scholars often overemphasise the (limited) potential of local practices. This paper proposes a bioregional spatial planning approach...

Patsy Healey was a major democratic theorist. Although often implicit, it is easy to discern in her work a normative-empirical theory of democracy that is characterized by a focus on improving stat...

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2025)

This commentary revisits Patsy Healey and colleagues’ 1980s–1990s work on property development within the context of urban change, examining its relevance to contemporary property-led urban plannin...

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Published in Planning Theory & Practice (Vol. 25, No. 5, 2024)

Zoning is one of the key roles of land use regulation by the state. In engaging with this land use regulation, developers do not stay put and passively await rules to be imposed upon them. Instead,...