What is it about?
Spatial justice is understood here as the result of negotiations among bodies that aim to occupy the same space at the same moment. This article avoids moral interpretations of spatial struggles and proposes instead an ethical analysis which view justice as competition over space. This theoretical approach is translated into practice by exploring the struggle for space in a historic neighbourhood in Genoa (Italy).
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Why is it important?
Out theoretical approach to space and justice is important in planning theory and practice because it challenges planning's obsession with fixing apriori categories to space and bodies and providing final solutions to spatial issues.
Perspectives
This article was the beginning of a reasoning about planning and justice, about how we can gain a deeper knowledge of our world without assuming good and bad as guiding principles but trying to adhere to a complex and ever-changing reality.
Miss Francesca Ansaloni
Universita IUAV di Venezia
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This page is a summary of: Ethics and spatial justice: Unfolding non-linear possibilities for planning action, Planning Theory, June 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1473095215591676.
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