Leonie Sandercock's research while affiliated with Government of British Columbia, Canada and other places

... Theorists and practitioners alike looked at older and other forms of organization, at model cities and situations they wanted to avoid (industrial slums, revolutions), or at the fate of administrative and creative experiments going on elsewhere. The practice and the discipline had to legitimize themselves through continuous reference to other places and ideas, and it had to adapt itself in series of successes and failures, with political overlords quick to point out what counted as a failure (Sandercock, 1990). ...

... She also became a serious bodysurfer, fell in love, experienced profound grief, and established herself as a leading urban political economy scholar. Leonie would later reflect on this period (Sandercock, 2023), suggesting that while she found success and recognition in writing through the strong, positivist detached voice typical of academic writing at the time, it came at the erasure of her own. The drive for connection and belonging remained. ...

... The emergence of digital formats and digital tools of urban research and exploration opens up new possibilities for planning in conjunction with storytelling. Sandercock and Attili (2010) call for an investigation of how voices that usually remain unheard in planning processes might become included, and how the new media may contribute to such processes. Investigations in this direction have been undertaken by Hallenbeck (2010) for Vancouver and by Wagner (2010) for New Orleans. ...

... Regarding this second approach, several studies show that bringing people into closer proximity neither ensured increased interaction nor the kinds of strong ties that boost well-being (Browning et al. 2017;Hipp and Perrin 2009;Talen 2006). Whether increased density results in the growth of social networks and other scaling effects depends on a variety of mediating circumstances (Kosse 2000), including the specifics of a city's built form and how individuals navigate and interact within those spaces, the existence of shared goals and mutual respect, and the presence of authorities that encourage harmony (Allport 1954;Hutson and Welch 2021;Saitta 2015;Sandercock and Attili 2009). Stated differently, the proposition that settlement density determines interaction rates may not always be correct. ...

... This was heartening, and I am intrigued by the ways that each neighborhood used this City-initiated community outreach effort to focus their attention to try: (i) to retrieve what they lost with the closing of the Railyard, (ii) to rebuild based on unique neighborhood assets, and (iii) to assert what is owed them as affected neighborhoods (Isaac, 2017). I went into the facilitation hoping that this community engagement initiative would not only document the multiple and diverse human, social, and organizational capacities of South Broadway and Barelas, but that it would also help forge a collective, multiplex, identity (Rosaldo, 1993;Sandercock, 2016). Our governance recommendations might have been more successful had we actively sought ways to enable the neighborhoods to chart parallel courses of engagement with the Railyards redevelopment process. ...

... Achieving that goal required them to learn how to listen to each other, how to understand the sources of their deep divides, how to express the pain and hurt that both groups had experienced for decades, and how to find common ground by working together on small mutually beneficial projects. The story is beautifully described in Sandercock's film Finding Our Way and analyzed in an article co-authored with Giovanni Attili (Sandercock and Attili 2012). The multiyear process of creating the film was designed to facilitate dialogue. ...

... These divisions, productive of as well as the product of violence and violent conflict, materialize in increasingly hardened spatial boundaries and the disappearance of mixed residential areas, while borders that unambiguously articulate 'our' and 'their' territory within the same city are reinforced (Björkdahl and Gusic, 2013: 320-321;Forde, 2019;Gusic, 2019). This means, as Sandercock (2015) notes that divided cities are expressions of 'a physical crisis nestled within a political crisis' (p. 109). ...

... Lyles and White (2019) subsequently applied care ethics to study how planners can resolve emotional paradoxes that arise during community engagement. These contributions link to theories of therapeutic and restorative planning (Sandercock & Attili, 2014;Schweitzer, 2016). ...

... Ces appartenances sont plus facilement accessibles que la nationalité et permettent aux individus, même après un court séjour ou lors d'expériences touristiques, de s'identifier à certains lieux et de projeter sur cette familiarité et ce sentiment d'appartenance (Sandercock 1998;2000;. Non seulement la ville est par définition le lieu de la concentration des différences (Sandercock 2011), mais elle devient également l'arène d'une constellation post-nationale qui doit développer de manière pragmatique des réponses à l'inclusion, l'exclusion et la vulnérabilité, en dehors de la logique nationale et plus près du référentiel supranational (Hansen et Winther 2008, Prakash 2002 comme le montre d'ailleurs l'exemple de la carte d'identité communale décrite par Alice Clarebout dans sa contribution, qui contraste avec l'État-nation, mais aide le développement des politiques européenne d'accueil. ...

... Building and nurturing community lies at the core of ecological sustainability, and building and nurturing community lies at the heart of community planning, whether that community planning is serving to support resurgent Indigenous communities on their path to self-sufficiency and self-determination, or working in the multi-ethnic, multi-racial neighbourhoods of cities, addressing systemic racism and other forms of discrimination, and encouraging strangers to become neighbours (see Sandercock and Attili 2006 ). A community planning that has as its heart a practice of kindness ( Forester 2021 ), loving attachment ( Porter, Sandercock, and Umemoto 2012 ), caring for each other and the air, lands, and waters, requires a shift of attention in our field that connects ways of knowing and acting to ways of being, as part of the broader ecological paradigm shift embracing connectedness, relationship, and interdependence . ...