Week 1 Readings Flashcards

Campanella V. Roy

Campanella’s thought camp

insert phrase; built environment dictates human behavior

Roy’s thought camp

political, economic, and social factors manifest the built environment

Jane Jacobs’ legacies

adoption of social sciences = identity crisis; public participation commitment = facilitators/opinion absorbers; abandonment of physical design for bureaucracy = grassroots doing visionary work

Campanella explanation of triviality

perception that we have made no meaningful change has stripped us of the authority to make meaningful change; self-inflicted loss of agency from Jacobs revolution

Campanella history of planning

Olmstead period: top-down/design focused; Post WWII: decentralized cities become dilapidated/planners destroy slums to create highways for suburban-urban access; JJ guilts new planners to reject design focus and forfeit power

Why is Campanella adverse to too much public participation

people act in self interest and fear, preventing important projects (infrastructure, housing) and neglecting the environment

Campanella’s solution to triviality

equip planning students with more design skills while still embracing the social sciences we now know; return to physical focus but now with social consciousness

Roy introduction

time has come to adjust planning bc urban growth happening in developing countries; adjust by observing; she chose to observe urban informality

How does informality happen?

the absence of regulating the fringe of cities allows for informal settlements and metropolitan expansion; the state chooses and reproduces informality

Epistemology 1: Politics of shit (directly contradicts Campanella)

planners wrapped up in aesthetics upgrade visual env. but worsen livelihoods; could combat with going to the poor and asking them to advise on solution

Epistemology 2: Underwriting the Right to Participate in the Market

We should stop trying to formalize property because it leads to gentrification, worse inequality, and is very messy

Epistemology 3: Strategically Using the State of Exception

Prevent gentrification through regulatory and regularity exemptions; regulatory: formalization = expectations for services = exclusion from services as punishment; regularity: formalization = regular payment expectations

Epistemology 4: Scale Jumping

Informality seen as a local issue, but is reproduced and can only be remediated through international governments and organizations

JE comment on Roy reading

Global North is more punitive to the poor and therefore the Global South for ‘allowing’ slums and not cutting their resources