Socially Just Planning Doctoral Network

The Socially Just Planning Doctoral Network has been created in order to discuss on-going research projects and initiatives, contributing to developing ideas of social justice and equity around the field of planning. This will be done through the fields of Transport, Regeneration and Public Spaces as three different, yet related, lines of socially just urban planning. 

SJP Transport Group explores areas of the research focused on different approaches to social justice: distribution of affordable low-emission vehicles and environmental justice; approaches to justice and democracy through the use of active transportation as walking and cycling; vulnerability indexes. Vulnerabilities in terms of gender and socioeconomic dimensions will be also discussed in the seminars. Community engagement will also be a relevant aspect, how communities are independent and entitled to develop their agency for changing their current situation. As previous years, Public transportation will be considered, for instance, about the promotion of an accessibility approach for socially-aware transport planning, or how spatial accessibility become an alternative for vulnerable contexts.