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Afterword 2. All the planners are merely players and each of them, in his time, plays many parts
2018
The paper proposes a critical reflection on the role of planners in planning practices, emphasising the ethical dimension of the methodological approach followed in the use of narratives and autobiographies, typical of John Forester's experience, in this type of study. The use of narratives and biographical experiences reveals aspects of great relevance concerning how planners interact with different actors and groups of actors and sensitivity to the socio-spatial diversity of the same in their different life experiences.
El Rol de planificadores urbanos en los colegios
2017
In the urban planning discipline, active and ethical participation must include not only the adult segment of the population, but also younger people. However, many issues still have to be addressed in order to turn this theoretical approach into practice. This paper revolves around the overall role of the urban planning scholar. In particular, it reflects on the issue of how schoolchildren and young people develop a sense of belonging to their neighborhood, based on an action research held in a complex Southern Italian metropolis, Palermo, in the 2013-2015 period. A cooperative multidisciplinary work has allowed to thoroughly address this issue and to build the theoretical foundations of t…
Social Media as Platform for Stimulating Urban Changes
2016
Images have always been an important part of city planning – current images of place, images with planned improvements, maps and sketches. Some time ago all that was a private property of stakeholders like planner and client. But nowadays this confidentiality rather much has vanished – no copyrights or competition is noteworthy. Plans do not have their privacy anymore. They are exposed even before they got implemented. This article will display why city planners share the images of their ideas, of their dreams in public (mostly in blogs and social networks) – why it is important for them and what kind of feedback they are waiting for. This article is based on case study where 12 respondents…