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The Spatial Justice of the Commons:
Part 2

This video lecture is the second of two parts of “The Spatial Justice of the Commons”. Following the first lecture, this will focus on the tragedy of the commons and unravel concepts of how the common can be governed.

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Dr Roberto Rocco
Associate Professor

Department of Management in the Built Environment,

TU Delft

Roberto Rocco is an Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at the Delft University of Technology. He specialises in governance for the built environment, with a special focus on issues of spatial justice and democracy in planning systems, and the interaction between formal and informal institutions. He works as a consultant for the Union for the Mediterranean.

Video Summary

Lecturers

Additional Information

  • Innes, J. E. (1998). Information in communicative planning.”. Journal of the American Planning Association, 64(1), 52-63. 

  • Machler, L., & Milz, D. (2015). Innes: The evolution of communicative planning theory. Groningen: InPlanning.

  • Sen, A. (2004). Development as Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

References

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  • Habermas, J. (1991). Theory of Communicative Action Volume 1 - Reason and the Rationalisation of Society (Vol. 1). Oxford: Polity Press.

  • Healey, P. (1996). The communicative turn in planning theory and its implications for spatial strategy formation. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 23, 217-234.

  • Hillier, J., & Healey, P. (2008). Contemporary Movements in Planning Theory. Aldershot: Ashgate.

  • Ostrom, E. (2009). A  Polycentric Approach for Coping with  Climate  Change.Background Report to  the  2010

  • World Development  Report. Retrieved from World Bank: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/480171468315567893/A-polycentric-approach-for-coping-with-climate-change

  • Ostrom, E., Burger, J., Field, C. B., Norgaard, R. B., & Policansky, D. (1999). Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges. Science, 284(5412), 278-282. 

  • Sen, A. (2009). The idea of justice. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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