Journal: Planning Perspectives

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Plan. Perspect.

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Taylor & Francis

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0266-5433
1466-4518

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  • Ekistics data. Mapping Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's abstracts of technical assistance, 1955-1972
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kohlberger, Martin; Le Roux, Hannah; Avermaete, Tom (2025)
    Planning Perspectives
    Working from the second row in first-row institutions - the United Nations, the Congr & egrave;s Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), Harvard School of Design and more - the urban planner and academic Jaqueline Tyrwhitt was establishing an alternative knowledge network. 1957-1972 she edited the EKISTICS Journal, publishing more than 2000 reports and abstracts collected from grey publications by technical assistance actors at sites around the world, which became accessible to, and grew a community linking technical assistance experts and planners with locals and practitioners. Using social network analysis through the open version of the relationship mapping tool kumu, this paper analyses the content and authorship of the abstracts published in EKISTICS under Tyrwhitt's editorship. Using her annotated lists of collections of published and unpublished literature on technical assistance, the paper illustrates Tyrwhitt's contribution to a growing South-North exchange. Then, by visualizing the geographies of knowledge network created through EKISTICS and its predecessor, Tropical Housing and Planning, its reach and influence become legible. The paper further claims that due to geopolitical discourses and Tyrwhitt's evolving personal role there had been a changing language of individual abstracts in EKISTICS as the journal moved from materials and physical planning towards cybernetics, governance and economics.
  • Land matters: planning histories of value, use and property
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Kuletskaya, Dasha; Schindler, Susanne; Kramer, Franziska (2025)
    Planning Perspectives
  • Baroque Rome was not planned in a day: forms of immunity in Alexander VII's and Louis XIV's urban strategies (1656-68)
    Item type: Journal Article
    Gigone, Fabio (2025)
    Planning Perspectives
    In the seventeenth century, Rome’s urban territory was legally contested, particularly during the 1660s when the Popes sought to assert power over the foreign states’ territorial claims. The papacy’s influence on the urban landscape was traditionally marked by extensive building activities that bolstered its financial resources, despite a decline in temporal power evidenced by diplomatic failures in the mid-1600s. Ecclesiastical immunities and privileges were employed as legal tools to generate income and reclaim urban territory, while European powers pursued ambassadorial extraterritoriality. Two crises, the 1656–1657 plague and the expansion of Louis XIV’s diplomatic immunities, exposed papal authority, prompting Pope Alexander VII to use architecture to reformulate his political aims. This paper argues that the concept of ‘immunity’ is key to understanding the significant urban and architectural forces that shaped Rome’s Baroque city.
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