Planning and community space

This research explores the role of space and spatial practices in the development of political consciousness and activism. It focuses on the opportunity of underprivileged groups to take an active role in the production of urban space, informally and formally through planning procedures, while challenging the prevailing spatial arrangements predominantly determined by market forces, and offering alternatives.

In addition, the research focuses on role of community and public space in shaping the urban experience of individuals and groups and the new meaning of public space in the late modern city. Major concepts composing this line of research are sense of community, neighborhood satisfaction, trust, and community control and autonomy.

One Landscape, Multiple Meanings // Reframing urban controlled spaces //  The Changing Meaning of Community Space // Actually Existing Commons