Yasminah Beebeejaun recently published The Participatory City (2016; Jovis), an edited collection of writing on participation as an urban process. Yasminah’s background is in urban planning.  She completed her BA (Hons) in Town and Regional Planning (First class honours) and her PhD at the University of Sheffield.  Prior to joining UCL she held lecturerships at the University of Manchester and the University of the West of England, Bristol. She has been an international visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, University of Illinois, Chicago and the University of Michigan.

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The Participatory City:

“Participation” has been a pivotal focus of urban studies since the 1960s. However, it is only over the last decade that new research aspects and critical debates on this subject have emerged across a wide range of disciplines. The changing role of planners, the rejection of traditional decision-making processes, the emergence of grassroots initiatives, the social differences that manifest in urban structures, and pressing ecological challenges—all of these are subjects that are redefining this field.

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The Participatory City is the first international and interdisciplinary collection of texts encompassing the whole spectrum of the debate within a wide geographical framework. Examples from Chicago, Detroit, London, Mexico City, and Bangalore reveal quite different experiences of public participation. The current status of the debates is shown through contributions by leading experts on subjects such as social housing, land-use policies, migrant rights, environmental problems, and health issues. They provide perspectives on future participative urban development. (Jovis Books)

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