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Queerying Planning - Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Queerying Planning - Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe
urban spaces in which to live, work, and play. This volume fills
the gap in the literature on the planning and development of queer
spaces, and highlights some of the resistance within the planning
profession to incorporate gay and lesbian concerns into the
planning mainstream. Planning lags behind other disciplines
concerned with queer urban issues. In contrast, the field of
geography has developed a rich sub-specialty in the geographies of
sex and gender that examines spaces and the variety of
non-heteronormative populations that inhabit them. This volume
brings together both planners and geographers with experience in
planning to examine some of the fundamental assumptions of urban
planning as they relate to the LGBT community. The first few
chapters are substantial revisions and expansions of earlier
influential work on planning for non-conformist populations and the
preservation of LGBT neighborhoods. Subsequent chapters comprise
original contributions that draw on the rich literature from queer
theory, planning theory and the geography of sexualities to explore
the ways that nonconformist populations struggle with
heteronormative expectations embedded in planning theory and
procedures. These chapters consider the intersection of planning
and a range of populations including transgendered and gender
variant individuals. Subsequent chapters examine the ways that
variations in the scale of urban and regional governance influence
local politics around the implementation of more equitable policies
at the city level. In addition, several chapters critically examine
the implications of using the tolerance component of Richard
Florida's "creative cities" arguments. The final section consists
of two chapters that explore the ways that urban planning regimes
have been used to regulate sexually-oriented businesses and the way
this regulation of sexualized spaces has implications on the
heteronormativity of plans and planners. In summary, these chapters
interrogate planning practice and pose questions for academic and
professional planners about the ways that the queer community and
its needs for spaces have shifted. What do those changes mean for
the practice of planning 40 years after the North American
Stonewall rebellion and looking forward to the next 40 years? To
what extent does existing planning practice constrain the evolution
of queer communities or seek to commercialize such spaces to the
benefit of large developers and the detriment of marginalized
members of the community? How might planning practice change to
provide more direct support to the evolution of queer people and
the spaces in which they live? This volume draws on these insights
as well as the experiences of the various authors to lay out
possible future directions for the field of planning to create
truly inclusive urban areas.
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