Spatial Knowledge and Urban Planning

Anna Juliane Heinrich, Angela Million and Karsten Zimmermann
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Anna Juliane Heinrich: Department of Urban Design and Urban Development, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Angela Million: Department of Urban Design and Urban Development, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Karsten Zimmermann: Department of European Planning Cultures, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

Urban Planning, 2022, vol. 7, issue 3, 185-190

Abstract: Urban planning is simultaneously shaped by and creates new (spatial) knowledge. The changes in planning culture that have taken place in the last decades—especially the so-called communicative turn in planning in the 1990s—have brought about an increased attention to a growing range of stakeholders of urban development, their interests, logics, and participation in planning as well as the negotiation processes between these stakeholders. However, while this has also been researched in breadth and depth, only scant attention has been paid to the knowledge (claims) of these stakeholders. In planning practice, knowledge, implicit and explicit, has been a highly relevant topic for quite some time: It is discussed how local knowledge can inform urban planning, how experimental knowledge on urban development can be generated in living labs, and what infrastructures can process “big data” and make it usable for planning, to name a few examples. With the thematic issue on “Spatial Knowledge and Urban Planning” we invited articles aiming at exploring the diverse understandings of (spatial) knowledge, and how knowledge influences planning and how planning itself constitutes processes of knowledge generation. The editorial gives a brief introduction to the general topic. Subsequently, abstracts of all articles illustrate what contents the issue has to offer and the specific contribution of each text is carved out. In the conclusion, common and recurring themes as well as remaining gaps and open questions at the interface of spatial knowledge and urban planning are discussed.

Keywords: evidence-based planning; knowledge; knowledge orders; learning; negotiation; planning; stakeholders; urban living labs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.17645/up.v7i3.6101

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