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✨ Dank an alle, die unsere Arbeit in 2026 unterstützt haben. Unser Motiv zum Jahreswechsel lenkt das Augenmerk auf räumliche Gerechtigkeit – ein zentrales Anliegen unserer Arbeit am IÖR. Mehr dazu 👉 https://www.ioer.de/presse/aktuelles/feiertagsgruesse-2025
#SpatialJustice #SustainabilityTransition
@leibnizgemeinschaft @Leibniz_IfL @IRSErkner @ZALF_leibniz @ilsforschung @Thuenen_aktuell @tudresden @KAT_Transformationszentrum @solawi @ioew @leibnizopenscience @slubdresden @vhsdresden @VerkehrswendeDD @DresdenZero @saxfdm @NFDI

Illustration zum Thema Räumliche Gerechtigkeit. Im Hintergrund ein Farbverlauf von grün nach blau. Darin eingebettet einzelne geometrische Figuren, vor allem Quadrate und Würfel. Unten eine Gruppe von Händen, die auf etwas deuten, etwas greifen wollen oder jemandem die Hand reichen.

RC21 Conference at University of Vienna seeks abstracts on critical urban issues and urban inequalities for oral presentations. December 29.

https://rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-abstracts/

#urbanism #urbanplanning #architecture #engineering #spatialjustice

Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years

"New cars have become so big that half of them are too wide to fit in parking spaces designed to the minimum on-street standards, in many countries."

"SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report.Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities."

"They argue that the trend towards bigger cars has reduced the space for other road users and increased the danger."
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/cars-growing-wider-europe-report

The effect of front-end vehicle height on pedestrian death risk>>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017

#TrafficFatalities #SUVs #MEGASUVs #BIG #cars #externalities #pedestrians #deaths #cyclists #FootTraffic #SpatialJustice #MobilityDesign #pollution #climate

No road is every wide enough, Bellingen, but it could be anywhere in the suburbs. Note, no footpath, no cycle path, no spacial justice. Just ugly fossil fuel infrastructure.

Here are some of the highlights from my first few weeks as a Public Art Canvasser!

The Public Art Census is a joint effort between Bernalillo County NM and Rohk Research & Design Studio. Research gathered will impact desicions about future public art projects, & provide information about spatial justice within Albuquerque—how accessible is the art, & how it overlaps with area median income, crime rates, & other demographics.

https://www.rokh.co/

#PublicArt #PublicArtCensus #SpatialJustice

A mural featuring large yellow flowers, with Frida Khalo and a black monkey surrounded by large green leaves

A yard full of abstract sculptures, some of them black and white, some bronze

A garage door painted with a mountain landscape and a swirling sky that evokes VanGogh’s “Starry Sky”

A bronze sculpture with a circular base that resembles grass blades, and a cluster of bronze circles with sharp saw-like edges, like an abstract sun or flower. Desert landscape in the background.

While exploring #peertube I found this fascinating 2022 conference talk of Nicholas Masterton explaining the work of 'Forensic Architecture', who use #spatialAnalysis tools, 3D modelling and simulations based on crowdsourced data to understand violence and #SpatialJustice for example in the fire in Grenfell Tower

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/ibzZy3zY69Q6yDJeUWfevp

Thanks to Rodrigo at Cogitatio for inviting me onto the "Let's Talk About" podcast to talk about my recent article "Radical Solidarities in Punk and Queer Refusals of Safety and Inclusion Narratives in Planning" in Urban Planning journal.

#podcast #OpenAccess #PublicScholarship #punk #Ottawa #SpatialJustice #UrbanPlanning #gentrification #placemaking #MusicCities #CulturalRevitalization

https://www.cogitatiopress.com/wp/lta/safe-spaces-punks-radical-take-on-inclusion

Very excited to begin a new chapter and to revive #phdreadingoftheday (mostly from prep for my PhD qualifying exams and proposal) with #postdocReadings!

Starting with Decolonizing design: a cultural justice guidebook
By Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

Doesn't hurt to enjoy a cold beer on a patio while doing so.

#ReadingList #Postdoc #SpatialJustice #Design #decolonize

A copy of Decolonizing Design on a patio table with a glass of beer from Beyond the Pale brewery.

This work focuses on the #RightToHousing and the bi-directional relationship between criminalization and housing insecurity with abolitionist and feminist lenses. It also picks up threads from my Ph.D. on #SpatialJustice, #RadicalPlanning, #FeministGeography, #communitycare

Book delivery!

Shaking up the city: ignorance, inequality, and the urban question
By #TomSlater

Been wanting to read this one for a while too. So many books to catch up on now that that pesky dissertation is behind me.

#UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning #urbanism #SpatialJustice #UrbanGeography

Book cover for Shaking up the city: ignorance, inequality, and the urban question by Tom Slater. Cover image shows an aerial shot of urban development divided by a road. On one side are densely packed informal housing. On the other are large suburban homes with green yards and pools.

Architectures of Spatial Justice. by Dana Cuff, director of CityLab at UCLA; from @mitpress 2023. Presents ethically & public-mission driven driven practices that break with professional conventions to correct long standing inequities in the built environment. https://books.google.com/books/about/Architectures_of_Spatial_Justice.html?id=9nB5EAAAQBAJ. Cites & channels #EdSoja on #SpatialJustice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Soja & #CharlesMoore's landmark 1965 essay on California architecture “You Have to Pay for the Public Life” umich.instructure.com/files/3950686/

cover of Architectures of Spatial Justice. by Dana Cuff

Architects look for opportunities where capital has already accumulated, or they escape through utopian fictions. Less easily imagined are alternative futures that archi- tecture might make possible, written by and about, designed for and with, and subsidized by and for the public. Charles Moore's 1965 claim that "you have to pay for the public life" has only grown more true over the past sixty years.3 In contrast to his idea of "public- ness as a sort of by-product of real estate planning and development," this book contributes to recent movements that insist that architects contend with their discipline's centuries-old structural problems, and that we do so through the res publica within the material world of things, particularly architecture itself.' It draws together previously disconnected threads from history, theory, and prac- tice to demonstrate that a path forward is in the making that lays the groundwork for much-needed institutional and disciplinary transformation. Rather than write off architecture's capacity to contribute to the collective challenges of our time, Architectures of Spatial Justice offers an evidence-laden path toward systemic change, beginning with targeted segments of design practice. That path is constructed from a series of steps that lead away from conventional architectural practice while retaining formal and aesthetic goals that not only define the discipline but embody the collective dignity that design attention renders.

The evidence shaping this book's argument has been systematically accumulated over the past two decades at cityLAB, my design research center at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). The lab has undertaken a series of collaborative research initiatives specifically designed to explore architectural agency through alternatives to conventional modes of practice, relations of capital, and relationships to the public. A selection of projects, some from cityLAB and some from practices in Japan, Mexico, and Chile, demonstrate architecture's potential contribution to spatial justice and comprise a series of experimental field tests to investigate six questions: 1. Where can design be leveraged for common good? 2. Do justice ethics invoke radically public architecture? 3. What role do partnerships of difference play? 4. Can a project serve as a generative demonstration rather than a singular solution? 5. How can such demonstrations be realized as legible policy? 6. And finally, what momentum do historically critical junctures provide? These questions guide the structure of the subsequent chapters and con- clude with a consideration of whether architecture can destabilize its own long- standing power relations in order to redress past inequities and create the world we want to live in moving forward.

Ed Soja in his book Seeking Spatial Justice, a and a continual process of contestation over rights to the city.5 Justice has a geography in which the equitable distribution of and access to city resources, services, and amenities are basic human rights that spatial strategies of design and planning can uphold. Obviously, architecture cannot alone solve entrenched problems of injustice. But to take the challenge seriously, architects and planners must give up authorial claims to creativity in favor of collective ones, must destabilize conventional projects and ideas about clients or patrons, must view their labor as generative rather than oriented to- ward completion, and must leverage the art of architecture for the commons. There have been previous advocates for similar goals, evidence that the archi- tectural discipline provides adequate space for alternative formulations as well as for resistance. Both types of transformation are more possible now because we are at a historic juncture, evident in the growing vocal demands of students, young practitioners, and disenfranchised publics. Rather than remaking architecture in toto, seeking spatial justice involves strategic mutations that variegate the discipline and practice. The medical pro- fession provides a useful example. While we expect medicine to adapt to the current and future pandemics, cures for other diseases still require research.

Bin in Neukölln mit dem Rad unterwegs, es ist eng. Der Fußgänger*innenweg überfüllt, die Straße überfrachtet durch riesige metal boxes und die Fahrräder ratlos dazwischen. Autos müssen da einfach weichen, #spatialjustice ist wichtig für disability, class und marginalisierte Menschen. Platz ist begrenzt, Autos tödlich u die Rechte aller anderen mit weniger m² pro Person umsetzbar. Behinderte + Dienstleister*innen können dann auch safer+schneller autofahren. #berlin #waroncars #geometryhatescars

New publication!

(When it rains it pours)

Sarah B. Gelbard (2023) “Did You Hear? Mavericks Is Closing!” Punk Refusal of Gentrified Endings, GeoHumanities, DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2023.2180418

"Gentrification kills punk. But punk always comes back, finds new places, haunts old sites, and remembers its past."

https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2023.2180418

#AcademicPublishing
#UrbanPlanning #SpatialJustice #CulturalRevitalization #MusicCity #CreativePlacemaking #Gentrification #Displacement #Punk #Subculture #Ottawa

Publication alert!

Gelbard, S. (2023). Radical Solidarities in Punk and Queer Refusals of Safety and Inclusion Narratives in Planning. Urban Planning, 8(2).

https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/6372/6372

#AcademicPublishing
#UrbanPlanning #SpatialJustice #CulturalPolicy #CreativePlacemaking #QueeringPlanning #Punk #Subculture

JOB ALERT: The Royal College of Art, School of Architecture, London, is offering two 3-year #postdocs on CLIMAVORE projects. Deadline to apply: 23 January 2023. For more details see the ads for

- Water Buffalo Commons Project: https://jobs.rca.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=211-22
- Monoculture Meltdown:
https://jobs.rca.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=210-22

#envhum #academicjobs #agroecology #spatialjustice #foodpolicy

Annual order of #VersoBooks just arrived! I have a bunch of pre-orders this year too that I look forward to receiving throughout the year. #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #Transportation #SpatialJustice

Municipal dreams by John Broughton.
Stone Men by Andrew Ross.
Making space: women and the man-made environment by Matrix.
Road to nowhere by @parismarx.
Mobility justice by Mimi Sheller.

Stack of books. Titles as listed in toot.

#introduction

#UrbanPlanning & #Architecture scholar and activist. Working on #SpatialJustice #CommunityPlanning #RadicalPlanning #FeministPlanning studying #Housing #Right2Housing #Displacement #Gentrification #UrbanCulture #Subculture

I also play #bass & vox in #punk band Bad Missionary (and new band coming soon).

Live in #ottawa #OttCity with my BF and my cat #DelaElla.

We have a fully funded 3-year #phd scholarship on #spatialjustice in #urban and #regional planning. Possible topics are very broad but with a focus on engagement with newer and emerging theories of justice. A good command of a Scandinavian language is an advatage. https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234328/phd-fellowship-in-city-and-regional-planning

Download the updated Challenging Practice Handbook by ASF UK + ASF International https://www.asf-uk.org/articles/download-the-updated-challenging-practice-handbook #architecture #urbandesign #urbanplanning #urbanpractice #communitydevelopment #participatorydesign #spatialjustice #internationaldevelopment #cities #urbanism

@tobiasbusch hello, I’m not architecture-trained but I am a professor researching #spatialjustice in #cities, and have written critically about hostile architecture, defensive design, design affordances etc in relation to unhoused people on the streets, protesters etc.

For those of you interested in #architecture, #spatialjustice and #housing , here is the online version of the J—A 261 where I interview the portuguese #architect and politician Helena Roseta about the new housing laws (bilingual issue in portuguese and english): https://arquitectos.pt/ja_arquivo/JA_261.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1oNu_e-aR4wI1ouKZ-xPJknxskW2PiN1qupblv7rY4L4UYiV2JfeDNq4Y

#SpatialJustice

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