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The ‘New Normal’ in Planning, Governance and Participation

Transforming Urban Governance in a Post-pandemic World

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Editors:
  1. Enza Lissandrello

    1. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  2. Janni Sørensen

    1. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  3. Kristian Olesen

    1. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  4. Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen

    1. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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  • Offers insights and learnings about how the pandemic has affected, disrupted, and regenerated
  • Gives several ways towards a ‘new normal’ by learning from urban governance and public participation practices
  • Inspires the new condition for planning and the new way of doing planning

Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction to the New Normal in Planning, Governance, and Participation

    • Enza Lissandrello, Janni Sørensen, Kristian Olesen, Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen
    Pages 1-11

  3. Theoretical Framings of the New Normal

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Theorizing Public Participation in Urban Governance. Toward a New Normal Planning

      • Enza Lissandrello, Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen, Lasse Schytt Nørgaard
      Pages 15-26

    3. Planning—The Force of Working Unfinished

      • John Pløger
      Pages 27-39

    4. Building on Recent Experiences and Participatory Planning in Serbia: Toward a New Normal

      • Nataša Čolić, Omiljena Dželebdžić, Ratka Čolić
      Pages 41-56

    5. Building the Buzz in Blakelaw: Re-Igniting the Public Realm of Britain’s Peripheral Urban Estates in the New Normal

      • Georgiana Varna, Danny Oswell
      Pages 57-68

    6. Adaptation of Partnership Models in Times of COVID-19

      • Janni Sørensen, Tara Bengle
      Pages 69-79

    7. An Anthropology of the Co-Emergency: Getting Inspired by the COVID-19 for a Natural Economy

      • Roberta Chiarini
      Pages 81-92

  4. Experiences on Urban Governance and Participation During the Pandemic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Pandemic Cycling Urbanism in French Intermediate Cities: A Singular Episode or a Shift to a “New Normal”?

      • Philippe Hamman, Andreea Grigorovschi, Sophie Henck, Marie Fruiquière
      Pages 95-110

    3. Lockdown Democracy: Participatory Budgeting in Pandemic Times and the Portuguese Experience

      • Miguel Silva Graça
      Pages 111-124

    4. Social Distancing and Participation: The Case of Participatory Budgeting in Budapest, Hungary

      • Gabriella Kiss, Máté Csukás, Dániel Oross
      Pages 125-137

    5. Establishing a Green Energy Transition Process in COVID Times

      • Felipe Barroco Fontes Cunha, Francesca Cappellaro, Claudia Carani, Gianluca D’Agosta, Piero De Sabbata, Danila Longo et al.
      Pages 139-149

    6. Participation During and After the Pandemic: Lessons Learned from an Urban Revitalisation Project in Dortmund, Germany

      • Lena Unger, Dahae Lee
      Pages 151-164

    7. Urban Living Labs for Healthy and People-Centered Cities: A Nordic Model

      • Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen, Enza Lissandrello, Núria Castell
      Pages 165-177

    8. Reframing Participatory Regeneration Through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Highlights from Lisbon

      • Roberto Falanga
      Pages 179-189

    9. Exploring PPGIS as a Way of Digital Participation on the Example of Heat Relief Planning

      • Pia Laborgne, Paula Klöcker
      Pages 191-202

    10. Online Participatory Events, Myth or Reality? Learnings from the EasyRights Hackathons

      • Maria Vitaller del Olmo, Nicola Morelli
      Pages 203-215

    11. Towards a New Normal in Participatory Governance in Berlin During COVID-19. A “Lost Year” or a “New Beginning”?

      • Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka
      Pages 217-228
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About this book

This book offers a unique and timely contribution, informed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, to unpack the intertwined challenges that planning needs to cope with in the future. It argues that the pandemic and post-pandemic periods, in their successive waves of restrictions and social distancing, have disrupted ‘normal’ practices but have also contributed to shaping a ‘new normal’. The new normal is emerging, re-configuring, and prioritizing the substantive objects of planning and its governance and participatory processes. This book discusses this shift and presents a collection of episodes and cases from diverse European urban contexts to develop a new vocabulary for describing and addressing challenges, models, perspectives, and imaginaries that contribute to defining the new normal. The book is aimed at scholars interested in urban planning, sociology, geography, anthropology, art, economy, technology studies, design studies, and political science. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Enza Lissandrello, Janni Sørensen, Kristian Olesen, Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen

About the editors

Enza Lissandrello is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University with a background in urban planning and public policy, human geography, and the governance of socio-technical system innovation and transitions. Her work examines urban and regional planning under contemporary trends of reflexive modernization, participation, deliberation, conflicts, and issues of representation. She has taught and published on the roles of planners and policy actors in sustainable urban planning and deliberative forms. She is leading research on smart cities and urban development, urban living labs, and positive energy districts. She is the research coordinator of the Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA).

 

Janni Sørensen is an associate professor at the department of Planning at Aalborg University. She holds a Ph.D. in Regional Planning from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and has for many years worked on participatory neighborhood-scale planning with marginalized communities in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Today her work centers on research and teaching at Aalborg University with a focus on both Rural and Urban communities’ access to and influence in local planning processes.

 

Kristian Olesen is an associate professor in strategic spatial planning at the Department of Planning at Aalborg University. Kristian’s main research interests are in strategic spatial planning, planning theory, neoliberalisation of planning, transportation policies, and housing policies. Kristian is currently leading a research project investigating how housing associations in Denmark increasingly are acting as strategic urban developers when transforming socio-economically disadvantaged non-profit housing areas.

 

Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen is an assistant professor in sustainable urban planning at Aalborg University. His research focuses on connecting diverse themes of sustainabilityplanning such as how air quality can become a driver in urban transitions, implementation of UN sustainable development goals in local planning and planning education, as well as the sustainability of multi-dwelling households, and second home planning. He teaches a broad range of topics related to sustainability planning and methods and theories of science in planning.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The ‘New Normal’ in Planning, Governance and Participation

  • Book Subtitle: Transforming Urban Governance in a Post-pandemic World

  • Editors: Enza Lissandrello, Janni Sørensen, Kristian Olesen, Rasmus Nedergård Steffansen

  • Series Title: The Urban Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32664-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32663-9Published: 18 July 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32666-0Due: 18 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32664-6Published: 17 July 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2365-757X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 326

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government

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