Rights and Planning

Challenges, Progress, and Approaches
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-43606-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

This book examines how rights shape every aspect of urban life—where people live, worship, gather, work, and participate in the decisions that define their communities. Yet cities around the world continue to struggle with balancing competing rights, addressing historical injustices, and ensuring equitable planning for increasingly diverse populations.

This volume brings together leading international scholars to explore the evolving relationship between rights and urban planning through compelling case studies and innovative theoretical perspectives spanning multiple continents. It examines pressing issues such as housing, Indigenous rights, migration, public participation, property, religious freedom, environmental justice, homelessness, accessibility, and commercial gentrification, while introducing emerging concepts including planning rights, collective rights, the right to prosperity, and the rights of nature. Moving beyond critique, the contributors highlight practical approaches, legal innovations, and policy reforms that demonstrate how planning can become a powerful instrument for advancing justice, inclusion, and democratic governance. Bridging theory and practice, this timely collection offers planners, policymakers, scholars, students, and engaged citizens an accessible yet rigorous examination of one of the defining challenges of contemporary cities: ensuring that rights are not merely proclaimed but realized in the everyday spaces where people live their lives.

This book is essential reading for students, policymakers, legal scholars and human rights practitioners in urban studies, planning, geography, law, and public policy. It will also appeal to community organizers, civil society advocates, and engaged citizens interested in social justice, equitable development, and democratic governance. The volume spans multiple subject areas including urban planning and design, human rights law, environmental justice, housing policy, Indigenous studies, migration studies, and critical urban theory.

Most of the chapters in this book were originally published in Planning Practice & Research and are accompanied by an updated Introduction.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agrawal, Sandeep K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Kommunal- und Baurecht Raumordnung, Städtebau, Wohnungsbaurecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Rights and Urban Planning: Towards More Just and Inclusive Cities 1. Planning rights: what are they, and how to use them 2. Urban planning and group and collective rights in Québec, Canada 3. The (unprivileged) polluter pays: Conflict of Rights in Delhi’s stormwater drain-adjacent ‘informal’ settlements 4. Rights amidst commercial gentrification: a comparative case study of Latinx business zones in Chicago and Santa Ana 5. The right to housing in a neoliberal and colonial context 6. Human rights and municipal land use bylaws in Atlantic Canada 7. Human rights and the city: A case of Ontario, Canada 8. Human Rights and Municipalities in Alberta, Canada 9. Rights intrusion and land use planning inequalities in Alberta’s summer villages 10. Master planning ‘as a verb’: enforcing participatory planning through the Brazilian courts 11. The coevolution between the status of groups in planning London and the development of the British constitutional rights 12. Civilizing practices and created spaces: resistance processes in the San Francisco (Paraguay) and Ismael Silva-Zé Keti (Brazil) housing projects

Über Autor(innen)

Sandeep Agrawal is Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Alberta, Canada. An internationally recognized scholar in urban planning, migration, and human and Indigenous rights, his research has influenced public policy and planning practice in Canada and beyond. He has authored over 100 publications and is the editor of several influential books, including a book on rights and cities.