Engaged Urban Pedagogy : Participatory Practices in Planning and Place-making

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.
 

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 at UCL.