Organizers: Barbara Pizzo (Sapienza Università di Roma, IT); Melanie Lombard (University of Manchester, UK); Nina Gribat (Technical University Berlin, DE).
Contact: barbara.pizzo@uniroma1.it; melanie.lombard@manchester.ac.uk; nina.gribat@tu-berlin.de
Many urban conflicts are related to issues of land including disputes over wanted or unwanted land developments, land uses, forms of ownership and occupation. Urban planning is called upon to prevent, resolve or restrain conflict. In particular, planning has been conceived as a way of regulating conflicting interests over land, and of redistributing the advantages determined by land uses. These regulatory and redistributive functions vary in relation to different planning traditions in diverse contexts, under different rules, regulations, norms and customs. While the role, capacity and success of planning in pursuing these goals are increasingly questioned, planning plays an integral but complex role in processes that sustain and perpetuate conditions of inequality of access, (dis)possession and (dis)placement. The scale, pace and form of these processes differs markedly between different urban contexts (e.g. from colonisation to compulsory acquisition; from slum clearance to gentrification; from urban growth to shrinkage).
Our interest lies with issues of land in relation to emerging geographies of power, which may have transnational, macro-‐level features, as well as micro-‐level dimensions. We are particularly interested in how planning deals with land in different contexts; and we wish to explore the meaning and role of land as a tool for recognition, as well as dispossession and displacement.
We particularly welcome contributions that:
- a) examine philosophical and political perspectives from the global North or South about recognition and redistribution (and their reciprocal relationships) in terms of land and in relation to the fields and activities of urban planning;
- b) contribute to constructing a comparative framework of experiences from the global North and South to understand empirically the problem of recognition and redistribution in different contexts, including: formal and informal urbanisation in regulated and unregulated markets; the institutionalisation or restriction of formal, informal and insurgent practices in different socio-‐juridical system
C.1.1 The Politics of Land: Urban Planning and Conflict in the Global North and South
Chairs: Barbara Pizzo (Sapienza Università di Roma); Melanie Lombard (University of Manchester); Nina Gribat (Technical University Berlin).
Contact: barbara.pizzo@uniroma1.it melanie.lombard@manchester.ac.uk nina.gribat@tu-berlin.de
Francesca Artioli
The restructuring of the State makes the city: State properties and urban planning in Italy
Sonia Freire Trigo
Vacant land in London: Narratives about people and land transformation
Valeria Monno
Displacement, dispossession and the future of the city
Urmi Sengupta
Land wars in India: Contestations, social forces and evolving neoliberal urban transformation
Discussant
Libby Porter (RMIT Australia)
Distributed Papers
John Angus
Landed (Freeman’s Wood)
C1.2 The Politics of Land: Urban Planning and Conflict in the Global North and South
Chairs: Barbara Pizzo (Sapienza Università di Roma); Melanie Lombard (University of Manchester); Nina Gribat (Technical University Berlin).
Contact: barbara.pizzo@uniroma1.it melanie.lombard@manchester.ac.uk nina.gribat@tu-berlin.de
Daniel Aldana Cohen
It’s the collective consumption, stupid: Re-theorizing urban climate politics in New York and São Paulo
Sebastián Ibarra González
Territorial conflicts around urban renewal: contentious actions and heritagization process in the central area of Santiago de Chile
Alvaro Pereira Mayra Mosciaro
Urban redevelopment, public land and speculation: strategies and conflicts in Porto Maravilha – Rio de Janeiro
Sahil Sasidharan
Landlocked in Peri-urban Politics around Delhi’s Land Policy
Discussant
Libby Porter (RMIT Australia)
Distributed Papers
Gabriela Ibarra
Turning ‘social’ into houses
