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Planning as an exception : The Special Urban Plans in Greece’s spatial planning system
Full text linkThis paper sheds light on aspects of the privatisation of spatial planning in Greece during the economic crisis through today. The focus lies on a particular planning instrument, the Special Urban Plan, which became inextricably entwined with the privatisation of land, resources, processes and a shift in spatial imaginaries. Special Urban Plans exemplify planning as an exception in relation to spatial cohesion, development, governance and public participation. They tend to become a normalised exemption, although they stand in striking contrast to the goals of sustainability and social inclusivity. At the same time, they fail to meet the crucial challenges of rising inequalities and climate vulnerability
Introduction : Rethinking Urban Development: Circular Cities for sustainable and inclusive communities
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Land development as a potential factor of vulnerability. Challenges in Greece’s spatial planning system
Full text linkThis paper focuses on the concept of vulnerability and explores its entanglements with spatial planning and land development. On the one hand, it traces how vulnerability has been introduced into the legislative framework of climate policies and spatial planning in Greece over the last decade. On the other hand, the paper highlights aspects of vulnerability inextricably entwined with processes of land development in Greece, path dependencies, and contemporary transformations. This dual exploration aims to argue that to address vulnerability in space, merely responding to emergencies and disasters is not enough. Instead, vulnerability should be understood in the context of much more complex, enduring factors that are intertwined with modes and processes of land development. Also, in accordance to innovative international experiences, tackling vulnerability can be a creative field for formulating innovative spatial policies. 
Planning As Magma. Suggestions From The Work Of Cornelius Castoriadis
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The philosophical work of Cornelius Castoriadis on the imaginary institution of society can inform planning theory today at a juncture of major transitions, unprecedented global urbanisation, multiple crises, and conflict. Planning as magma constitutes a dynamic world of social imaginary significations, which goes beyond plans, legal frameworks, administrative processes, and professional practices. This highlights the political dimensions of planning as thinking and doing interwoven with consensual or conflictual social dynamics, representations, desires, finalities, and affects. Derivative values such as indetermination, infinite potentiality, inexhaustibility, multiplicity, and difference may open paths to self-reflection, selftransformation, and radical imagination. Planning as magma means to elucidate planning goals and orientations, to conceive new social imaginary significations, and to constitute new methodologies, epistemologies, policies, and practices, toward sustainability and justice.
Keywords: planning theory; spatial planning; philosophy; magma; Cornelius Castoriadispublished versio
Planning As Magma. Suggestions From The Work Of Cornelius Castoriadis
Full text linkGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The philosophical work of Cornelius Castoriadis on the imaginary institution of society can inform planning theory today at a juncture of major transitions, unprecedented global urbanisation, multiple crises, and conflict. Planning as magma constitutes a dynamic world of social imaginary significations, which goes beyond plans, legal frameworks, administrative processes, and professional practices. This highlights the political dimensions of planning as thinking and doing interwoven with consensual or conflictual social dynamics, representations, desires, finalities, and affects. Derivative values such as indetermination, infinite potentiality, inexhaustibility, multiplicity, and difference may open paths to self-reflection, selftransformation, and radical imagination. Planning as magma means to elucidate planning goals and orientations, to conceive new social imaginary significations, and to constitute new methodologies, epistemologies, policies, and practices, toward sustainability and justice.
Keywords: planning theory; spatial planning; philosophy; magma; Cornelius Castoriadispublished versio
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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