Insurgencies and Revolutions

Haripriya Rangan works for the Australia India Institute, and is affiliated with the School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Trained as an architect and planner, she studied with John Friedmann at UCLA, and has pursued a research and teaching career in geography in India, USA, Australia and South Africa. Mee Kam Ng is Vice-Chairman of the Department of Geography and Resource Management, Director of the Urban Studies Programme and Associate Director of the Institute of Future Cities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a member of RTPI, a fellow of HKIP and academic advisor of HKIUD. Jacquelyn Chase is a professor in the Geography and Planning Department at California State University, Chico. She has published articles on urbanization of agricultural regions, rural labor markets, gender, and fertility in Brazil and on county planning in California. She is the editor of the volume Spaces of Neoliberalism (Kumarian). Libby Porter is a scholar in planning and urban geography. Her work focuses on the role that planning and urban development play in dispossession and displacement. She is author of Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning (Ashgate 2010) and with Janice Barry of Planning for Coexistence? (Routledge 2016).

Preface

Leonie Sandercock

Introduction to the Volume

Haripriya Rangan

Theme 1: Practising Hope

Theme introduction

Libby Porter






"Resistance is never wasted": Reflections on Friedmann and hope
Libby Porter




Territoriality: Which way now?
Bishwapriya Sanyal




The difficulties of employing utopian thinking in planning practice: Lessons from the Just Jerusalem Project
Diane E. Davis




Realizing sustainable development goals: The prescience of John Friedmann
Shiv Someshwar




How to prepare planners in the Bologna European education context: Adapting Friedmann’s planning theories to practical pedagogy
Adolfo Cazorla, Ignacio de los Ríos, José M. Díaz-Puente

Theme 2: Economic Development and Regionalism

Theme introduction

Haripriya Rangan




City-regions, urban fields, and urban frontiers: Friedmann’s legacy
Robin Bloch




Periphery, borders and regional development
Chung-Tong Wu




The bioregionalization of survival: Sustainability science and rooted community
Keith Pezzoli




Are social enterprises a radical planning challenge to neoliberal economic development?
Haripriya Rangan




Business in the public domain: The rise of social enterprises and implications for economic development planning
Yuko Aoyama

Theme 3: World Cities and the Good City: Contradictions and Possibilities

Theme introduction

Haripriya Rangan




The urban, the periurban and the urban superorganism
Michael Leaf




The prospect of suburbs: Rethinking the urban field on a planet of cities
Roger Keil




Room for the Good Society? Public space, amenities and the condominium
Ute Lehrer




The escalating privatization of urban space meets John Friedmann’s post-urban landscape
Saskia Sassen




Urban entrepreneurship through transactive planning: The making of Waterfront Toronto
Matti Siemiatycki




From good city to progressive city: Reclaiming the urban future in Asia
Mike Douglass




Transactive planning and the "found space" of Mumbai Port Lands
Hemalata C. Dandekar

Theme 4: Social Learning, Communities, and Empowered Citizenship

Theme introduction

Jacquelyn Chase




Development in Indian country: Empowerment, life Space, and transformative Planning
Michael Hibbard




Operationalizing social learning through empowerment evaluation
Claudia B. Isaac




The 'radical' practice of teaching, learning, and doing in the informal settlement of Langrug, South Africa
Tanja Winkler




Fire, ownership, citizenship and community
Jacquelyn Chase




Meeting the Other: A personal account of my struggle with John Friedmann to enact the radical practice of dialogic inquiry and love in the new millennium
Aftab Erfan

Theme 5: Chinese Urbanism

Theme introduction

Mee Kam Ng




Ignoring the ramparts: John Friedmann’s dialogue with Chinese urbanism and Chinese studies
Timothy Cheek




Challenges of strategic planning in another planning culture: Learning from working in a Chinese city
Klaus R. Kunzmann




Social learning in creative Shanghai
Sheng Zhong




From Xinhai Revolution (1911) to the Umbrella Movement (2014): Insurgent citizenship, radical planning and Chinese culture in the Hong Kong SAR

Mee Kam Ng

Post-script

John Friedmann