
- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning nearly half a century as an educator, researcher, artist, and practitioner, Sandercock is one of the leading figures in community planning, dedicating her life to pursuing social, cultural, and environmental justice through her work.
In this book, Leonie Sandercock reflects on her past writings and films, which played an important role in redefining the field in more progressive directions, both in theory and practice. It includes previously published essays in conjunction with insightful commentaries prefacing each section, and four new essays, two discussing Sandercock's most recent work on a feature-film project with Indigenous partners. Innovative, visionary, and audacious, Leonie's community-based scholarship and practice in the fields of urban planning and community development have engaged some of the most intractable issues of our time – inequality, discrimination, and racism. Through award-winning books and films, she has influenced the planning field to become more culturally fluent, addressing diversity and difference through structural change.
This book draws a map of hope for emerging planners dedicated to equity, justice, and sustainability. It will inspire the next generation of community planners, as well as current practitioners and students in planning, cultural studies, urban studies, architecture, and community development.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I Diversifying Planning’s History, Theory, and Epistemology
- Commentary: The Los Angeles Years: 1986–1996
- PART II Imagining Cities of Difference
- Commentary: The Cosmopolis Project: From Theory to Practice, 1992–2006
- PART III Expanding the Language of Planning
- Commentary: The Storytelling Project: 1986–2022
- PART IV Navigating Indigenous Worlds: Praxis and Pedagogy
- Commentary: The Inner Journey: 2007–2022
- Conclusion: Mapping Possibility: The View from 2022
- Commentary: Beneath the Pavement, the Beach?
- Index