ABOUT THIS BOOK

A practical handbook for teaching about the built environment.

Engaged Urban Pedagogy presents a participatory approach to teaching about the built environment by exploring twelve examples of real-world engagement in urban planning involving people within, and beyond, the university. Starting with curriculum review, course content is analyzed in light of urban pasts, race, queer identity, lived experiences, and the concerns of urban professionals. Case studies then shift to focus on techniques for participatory critical pedagogy, including expanding the classroom with links to live place-making processes, connections made through digital co-design exercises, and student-led podcasting assignments. Finally, the book turns to activities beyond formal university teaching, such as those where school-age children learn about their own participation in urban processes together alongside university students and researchers. Drawing on foundational works of critical pedagogy, the contributors present a distinctly urban praxis that will help those in universities respond to the built environment challenges of today.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Lucy Natarajan is associate professor of urban planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Michael Short is associate professor (teaching) of city planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.

REVIEWS

The reader can leisurely dip into a number of case studies. A wide range of invested experts, artists and local people ... makes this both insightful and engaging.'
Journal of Urban Design

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of figures List of contributors 1 Towards an Engaged Urban Pedagogy Lucy Natarajan and Michael Short SECTION I: REVIEWING CURRICULA 2 Race and space: A pedagogic intervention Yasminah Beebeejaun and Catalina Ortiz 3 Queering the built environment curriculum Celine Lessard, Renée Etokakpan, Juliana Martins, Corin Menuge, Jordan Rowe, Ramandeep Shergill, Michael Short 4 Co-designing educational assessments with students and external partners Gemma Moore and Maria Xypaki 5 Engaged pedagogy, informality and collaborative governance in South Africa Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens, Lauren Andres, Martin Lewis, Lorena Melgaço, Verna Nel and Elsona van Huyssteen SECTION II: PROVIDING TEACHING 6 Planning imaginations and the pedagogic value of external guest speakers Lucy Natarajan and Mike Raco 7 Co-Producing Planning? Neighbourhood Planning as the Context for Participative Pedagogy Elena Besussi and Sue Brownill 8 Podcasting and Collaborative Learning Practices in Placemaking Studies Silvia Gullino, Simeon Shtebunaev and Elodie Wakerley 9 Adapting the Civic Design Method to digital learning and collaboration with communities Pablo Sendra and Domenico Di Siena SECTION 3: EMBEDDING PRACTICES 10 Co-production and the pedagogy of exchange: lessons ??from community research training ?in Birmingham Sara Hassan and Liam O’Farrell 11 Role play activities: a methodology for transformative participation. Teresa Strachan 12 City-to-city learning as impulse for engaged urban pedagogy Raphael Sedlitzky and Fernando Santomauro 13 Building together and co-building the city: Do it yourself! Dominique Lancrenon, Stephan Hauser, Patrick Le Bellec and Melia Delplanque Conclusions 14 Critical pedagogy with urban participation Lucy Natarajan and Michael Short Index