Citizen Coalition Building

Citizens are constantly shaping the city around us. Oftentimes, different ‘publics’ are engaging in a form of planning that responds to the inadequacies of the formal decision-making process. This can occur through a form of occupation of public land or privately-owned assets (e.g. squatting in vacant properties), organising street protests against undesirable planning proposals, or proactively developing an alternative vision or plan for the city. Citizen-led planning is occurring in cities in the Global South and the Global North, and is changing the way we understand urban planning as an assemblage of both formal and informal processes. This project examines citizen’s participation in their city, including how politics is enacted and performed, and by whom across these formal and informal spaces. We explore these dynamics in the context of planning for socially critical urban infrastructure including housing and transport.

Publications

Legacy, C. (2018) ‘The post-politics of transport: establishing a new meeting ground for transport politics’, Geographical Research, DOI 10.1111/1745-5871.12263

Legacy, C., Taylor, E. (2018) ‘Resisting regeneration: community opposition and the politicization of transport-led regeneration in Australian cities’, (ed. Ruming, K) Urban Regeneration and Australian Cities, Routledge. Chapter 18, pp. 333-352

Legacy, C. (2017). Is there a crisis of participatory planning? Planning Theory, 16(4): 425-442.

Legacy, C, Liu, E, Davison, G. (2016) ‘Delivering social housing: examining the nexus between social housing and democratic planning’, Housing Theory and Society, 33(3): 324-341

Davison, G., Legacy, C., Lui, E (2016) ‘The factors driving the escalation of community opposition to affordable housing development’, Urban Policy and Research. 34(4): 386-400

Legacy, C, (2016) ‘Transforming transport planning in the postpolitical era’, Urban Studies, 53(14): 3108-3124

Legacy, C., Van Den Nouwelant, R, (2015) ‘Negotiating strategic planning’s transitional spaces: the case of `guerrilla governance’ in infrastructure planning’, Environment and Planning A, 47: 209-226

Cook, A., Whitzman, C., Tranter, P.(2015) “Is Citizen Kid an Independent Kid? The relationship between independent mobility and citizenship”, Journal of Urban Design 20(4): 526-544. Part of a special issue I co-edited on designing with children in Asia-Pacific cities.