Petra Leisenring Doan
Biographic Data
| ID | 178405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petra Leisenring Doan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petra Leisenring |
| FAMILY NAME | Doan |
| SIGNATURE | DOAN P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9507-7750 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 383 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Re-Orienting Planning Practice
This commentary reflects on the articles in the thematic issue on queering urban planning and municipal governance and the ways that they suggest that planning practice must be re-oriented to be more inclusive and incorporate more insurgent perspectives. Planning practice is susceptible to capture by neo-liberal corporate interests that marginalize vulnerable queer populations. More insurgent planning approaches are needed to resist the corporate…
Queering the City
This paper uses examples drawn from US cities (Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia, and Ybor City in Tampa, Florida) to develop a more generalizable framework within which to analyze the process of queering a neighborhood and identifying policy measures that might keep it queer. This kind of comparative approach enables a more careful reading of queer urban spaces based on the behaviors of LGBTQ people in and around those spaces. The strategic aim of the…
Improving Global Planning Education by Centering the Experience of International Students in U.S. and Canadian Planning Schools
This report examines ways to better support international students in U.S. and Canadian planning schools based on a survey and focus groups conducted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Global Planning Education Committee (GPEC). Findings show that international students often face alienation and structural barriers to navigating universities and living in an unfamiliar culture, along with identity ambiguity, inadequate career se…
After the Life of LGBTQ Spaces
Many gay villages (or “gayborhoods”) arose in the wake of the gay liberation movement attracted a good deal of academic research within the last 40 years. Unfortunately, this hyper focus on certain spaces often populated by white gay men has frequently eclipsed research on other types of LGBTQ areas as well as other geographies beyond the global north. This chapter aims to address this gap, taking an ordinary cities perspective (Robinson, 2006) a…
Cultural Archipelagos or Planetary Systems
Making lesbian space at the edge of Europe
There is limited research regarding queer spaces in Turkey, and even less on lesbians because women have struggled to have an active public presence in Turkey. Accordingly, lesbian spaces are more embodied and less explicitly visible in public spaces than in the West. This study aims to make the invisible more visible by examining the space-making strategies of the lesbian community during the late 20th and early 21st century when lesbian, gay, b…
Coming out of darkness and into activism
This article recounts the experiences of the author at the Women’s March that occurred in Tallahassee, Florida on 21 January 2017. As an openly transgender woman, the author was invited to speak at that March and also to represent Equality Florida, a statewide LGBTQ lobbying group. This article contains the entirety of her speech which provides some autobiographical details about the author’s journey to fully accept her transgender identity and h…
Building new capital cities in Africa
New town building is currently re-emerging in the Third World to decant major metropolitan areas using modernist design and planning assumptions. Using the experience of Africa's postcolonial new capital cities of Abuja (Nigeria), Dodoma (Tanzania), Gaborone (Botswana) and Lilongwe (Malawi), this article analyses the effectiveness of new town building as an urbanisation strategy in Africa and highlights some lessons for new satellite towns in dev…
To Count or Not to Count
This paper recognizes the perils of forcing queer subjects into tick boxes but argues that the urgent need for transgender-accessible bathrooms requires a more inclusive count of this vulnerable population. Most estimates of the transgender population are flawed because they measure only the transsexual population. This paper uses a more broadly defined transgender subjectivity that includes transsexuals and cross-dressers, as well as intersex, g…
Local development planning and the tourism sector
Tourism has seen exponential growth over the past 60 years. In Africa there has been rapid growth, but considerably more variability. The impacts of this volatility are experienced most directly by local communities who typically have little input into decision-making about tourism and related investments. This article considers the case of Kenya, where in recent years tourism has become the leading source of foreign exchange. The article conside…
Patterns of Population Growth in Peri-Urban Accra, Ghana
Urbanization in Africa (and the wider developing world for that matter) has often been misunderstood by Western observers on the lookout for Western-style cities and suburbs. In these parts of the world, rapid urbanization has led to continuing changes in the form and shape of cities, as peri-urban zones shift swiftly from rural to urban. While some descriptions of the peri-urban zone suggest an amorphous area filled with low-income residents, ot…
The Demise of Queer Space? Resurgent Gentrification and the Assimilation of LGBT Neighborhoods
In the past forty years, gay and lesbian populations have established a visible presence in many cities, but recent gentrification has put pressure on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered) neighborhoods. This article uses a case study of the Atlanta metropolitan area to examine the effects of resurgent gentrification on LGBT neighborhoods. The study finds that rising housing values have dispersed the LGBT population, and former LGBT ne…
The tyranny of gendered spaces - reflections from beyond the gender dichotomy
This article argues critically that the consequences of a binary system of gender norms is experienced as a kind of gender tyranny both for those who transgress gender in their daily lives, but also for those whose lives are lived within such constraints. Feminist geographers and urban theorists have argued that space is gendered and that gendering has profound consequences for women. This article extends this analysis and shows how rigid categor…
Cognitive Dimensions of Way-Finding
This paper critiques the proposition that way-finding strategies can be differentiated by sex. We argue that way-finding is better understood as a function of gender differences where gender is understood as a lived social relation, a product of the interaction between an embodied habitus and a particular social field. The use of survey versus landmark way-finding strategies is linked to an individual's gendered experiences of urban life. The stu…
Queers in the American City
This paper explores the complex relationship between transgendered people and cities in the USA, and, in particular, their relationship with queer spaces within those cities. Some have argued that queer spaces occur at the margins of society and constitute a safe haven for LGBT oppressed by the hetero-normative nature of urban areas. Data from a survey of 149 transgendered individuals indicate that although queer spaces provide a measure of prote…
Tourism planning and regional instability
Tourism is likely to be a significant source of growth for many developing countries during the comingdecades. However, the globalisation of the tourist sector is likely to pose increasing challenges to developmentplanners concerned with ensuring equitable and sustainable local development initiatives. Thispaper examines the rapid growth of tourism in Jordan in the wake of the peace treaty with Israel and aseries of projections of the growth pote…
A Survey of Undergraduate Course Syllabi and a Hybrid Course on Global Urban Topics
In recent years, many planning departments at American universities have begun to teach introductory world-cities courses at the undergraduate level. This trend is explained by the growing recognition of the role and importance of undergraduate planning education, increasing interests in effects of globalization on cities, and pressures from university administrators for planning faculty to increase enrollment. This article reviews strategies ado…
The tyranny of gendered spaces - reflections from beyond the gender dichotomy
This article argues critically that the consequences of a binary system of gender norms is experienced as a kind of gender tyranny both for those who transgress gender in their daily lives, but also for those whose lives are lived within such constraints. Feminist geographers and urban theorists have argued that space is gendered and that gendering has profound consequences for women. This article extends this analysis and shows how rigid categor…
Queers in the American City
This paper explores the complex relationship between transgendered people and cities in the USA, and, in particular, their relationship with queer spaces within those cities. Some have argued that queer spaces occur at the margins of society and constitute a safe haven for LGBT oppressed by the hetero-normative nature of urban areas. Data from a survey of 149 transgendered individuals indicate that although queer spaces provide a measure of prote…
The Demise of Queer Space? Resurgent Gentrification and the Assimilation of LGBT Neighborhoods
In the past forty years, gay and lesbian populations have established a visible presence in many cities, but recent gentrification has put pressure on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered) neighborhoods. This article uses a case study of the Atlanta metropolitan area to examine the effects of resurgent gentrification on LGBT neighborhoods. The study finds that rising housing values have dispersed the LGBT population, and former LGBT ne…
Building new capital cities in Africa
New town building is currently re-emerging in the Third World to decant major metropolitan areas using modernist design and planning assumptions. Using the experience of Africa's postcolonial new capital cities of Abuja (Nigeria), Dodoma (Tanzania), Gaborone (Botswana) and Lilongwe (Malawi), this article analyses the effectiveness of new town building as an urbanisation strategy in Africa and highlights some lessons for new satellite towns in dev…
Patterns of Population Growth in Peri-Urban Accra, Ghana
Urbanization in Africa (and the wider developing world for that matter) has often been misunderstood by Western observers on the lookout for Western-style cities and suburbs. In these parts of the world, rapid urbanization has led to continuing changes in the form and shape of cities, as peri-urban zones shift swiftly from rural to urban. While some descriptions of the peri-urban zone suggest an amorphous area filled with low-income residents, ot…
To Count or Not to Count
This paper recognizes the perils of forcing queer subjects into tick boxes but argues that the urgent need for transgender-accessible bathrooms requires a more inclusive count of this vulnerable population. Most estimates of the transgender population are flawed because they measure only the transsexual population. This paper uses a more broadly defined transgender subjectivity that includes transsexuals and cross-dressers, as well as intersex, g…
Coming out of darkness and into activism
This article recounts the experiences of the author at the Women’s March that occurred in Tallahassee, Florida on 21 January 2017. As an openly transgender woman, the author was invited to speak at that March and also to represent Equality Florida, a statewide LGBTQ lobbying group. This article contains the entirety of her speech which provides some autobiographical details about the author’s journey to fully accept her transgender identity and h…
Cultural Archipelagos or Planetary Systems
Making lesbian space at the edge of Europe
There is limited research regarding queer spaces in Turkey, and even less on lesbians because women have struggled to have an active public presence in Turkey. Accordingly, lesbian spaces are more embodied and less explicitly visible in public spaces than in the West. This study aims to make the invisible more visible by examining the space-making strategies of the lesbian community during the late 20th and early 21st century when lesbian, gay, b…
Cognitive Dimensions of Way-Finding
This paper critiques the proposition that way-finding strategies can be differentiated by sex. We argue that way-finding is better understood as a function of gender differences where gender is understood as a lived social relation, a product of the interaction between an embodied habitus and a particular social field. The use of survey versus landmark way-finding strategies is linked to an individual's gendered experiences of urban life. The stu…
Tourism planning and regional instability
Tourism is likely to be a significant source of growth for many developing countries during the comingdecades. However, the globalisation of the tourist sector is likely to pose increasing challenges to developmentplanners concerned with ensuring equitable and sustainable local development initiatives. Thispaper examines the rapid growth of tourism in Jordan in the wake of the peace treaty with Israel and aseries of projections of the growth pote…
A Survey of Undergraduate Course Syllabi and a Hybrid Course on Global Urban Topics
In recent years, many planning departments at American universities have begun to teach introductory world-cities courses at the undergraduate level. This trend is explained by the growing recognition of the role and importance of undergraduate planning education, increasing interests in effects of globalization on cities, and pressures from university administrators for planning faculty to increase enrollment. This article reviews strategies ado…
Tourism planning and regional instability
Tourism is likely to be a significant source of growth for many developing countries during the comingdecades. However, the globalisation of the tourist sector is likely to pose increasing challenges to developmentplanners concerned with ensuring equitable and sustainable local development initiatives. Thispaper examines the rapid growth of tourism in Jordan in the wake of the peace treaty with Israel and aseries of projections of the growth pote…
A Survey of Undergraduate Course Syllabi and a Hybrid Course on Global Urban Topics
In recent years, many planning departments at American universities have begun to teach introductory world-cities courses at the undergraduate level. This trend is explained by the growing recognition of the role and importance of undergraduate planning education, increasing interests in effects of globalization on cities, and pressures from university administrators for planning faculty to increase enrollment. This article reviews strategies ado…
Queers in the American City
This paper explores the complex relationship between transgendered people and cities in the USA, and, in particular, their relationship with queer spaces within those cities. Some have argued that queer spaces occur at the margins of society and constitute a safe haven for LGBT oppressed by the hetero-normative nature of urban areas. Data from a survey of 149 transgendered individuals indicate that although queer spaces provide a measure of prote…
Cognitive Dimensions of Way-Finding
This paper critiques the proposition that way-finding strategies can be differentiated by sex. We argue that way-finding is better understood as a function of gender differences where gender is understood as a lived social relation, a product of the interaction between an embodied habitus and a particular social field. The use of survey versus landmark way-finding strategies is linked to an individual's gendered experiences of urban life. The stu…
The tyranny of gendered spaces - reflections from beyond the gender dichotomy
This article argues critically that the consequences of a binary system of gender norms is experienced as a kind of gender tyranny both for those who transgress gender in their daily lives, but also for those whose lives are lived within such constraints. Feminist geographers and urban theorists have argued that space is gendered and that gendering has profound consequences for women. This article extends this analysis and shows how rigid categor…
The Demise of Queer Space? Resurgent Gentrification and the Assimilation of LGBT Neighborhoods
In the past forty years, gay and lesbian populations have established a visible presence in many cities, but recent gentrification has put pressure on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered) neighborhoods. This article uses a case study of the Atlanta metropolitan area to examine the effects of resurgent gentrification on LGBT neighborhoods. The study finds that rising housing values have dispersed the LGBT population, and former LGBT ne…
Local development planning and the tourism sector
Tourism has seen exponential growth over the past 60 years. In Africa there has been rapid growth, but considerably more variability. The impacts of this volatility are experienced most directly by local communities who typically have little input into decision-making about tourism and related investments. This article considers the case of Kenya, where in recent years tourism has become the leading source of foreign exchange. The article conside…
Patterns of Population Growth in Peri-Urban Accra, Ghana
Urbanization in Africa (and the wider developing world for that matter) has often been misunderstood by Western observers on the lookout for Western-style cities and suburbs. In these parts of the world, rapid urbanization has led to continuing changes in the form and shape of cities, as peri-urban zones shift swiftly from rural to urban. While some descriptions of the peri-urban zone suggest an amorphous area filled with low-income residents, ot…
To Count or Not to Count
This paper recognizes the perils of forcing queer subjects into tick boxes but argues that the urgent need for transgender-accessible bathrooms requires a more inclusive count of this vulnerable population. Most estimates of the transgender population are flawed because they measure only the transsexual population. This paper uses a more broadly defined transgender subjectivity that includes transsexuals and cross-dressers, as well as intersex, g…
Coming out of darkness and into activism
This article recounts the experiences of the author at the Women’s March that occurred in Tallahassee, Florida on 21 January 2017. As an openly transgender woman, the author was invited to speak at that March and also to represent Equality Florida, a statewide LGBTQ lobbying group. This article contains the entirety of her speech which provides some autobiographical details about the author’s journey to fully accept her transgender identity and h…
Building new capital cities in Africa
New town building is currently re-emerging in the Third World to decant major metropolitan areas using modernist design and planning assumptions. Using the experience of Africa's postcolonial new capital cities of Abuja (Nigeria), Dodoma (Tanzania), Gaborone (Botswana) and Lilongwe (Malawi), this article analyses the effectiveness of new town building as an urbanisation strategy in Africa and highlights some lessons for new satellite towns in dev…
Cultural Archipelagos or Planetary Systems
Making lesbian space at the edge of Europe
There is limited research regarding queer spaces in Turkey, and even less on lesbians because women have struggled to have an active public presence in Turkey. Accordingly, lesbian spaces are more embodied and less explicitly visible in public spaces than in the West. This study aims to make the invisible more visible by examining the space-making strategies of the lesbian community during the late 20th and early 21st century when lesbian, gay, b…
After the Life of LGBTQ Spaces
Many gay villages (or “gayborhoods”) arose in the wake of the gay liberation movement attracted a good deal of academic research within the last 40 years. Unfortunately, this hyper focus on certain spaces often populated by white gay men has frequently eclipsed research on other types of LGBTQ areas as well as other geographies beyond the global north. This chapter aims to address this gap, taking an ordinary cities perspective (Robinson, 2006) a…
Improving Global Planning Education by Centering the Experience of International Students in U.S. and Canadian Planning Schools
This report examines ways to better support international students in U.S. and Canadian planning schools based on a survey and focus groups conducted by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Global Planning Education Committee (GPEC). Findings show that international students often face alienation and structural barriers to navigating universities and living in an unfamiliar culture, along with identity ambiguity, inadequate career se…
Re-Orienting Planning Practice
This commentary reflects on the articles in the thematic issue on queering urban planning and municipal governance and the ways that they suggest that planning practice must be re-oriented to be more inclusive and incorporate more insurgent perspectives. Planning practice is susceptible to capture by neo-liberal corporate interests that marginalize vulnerable queer populations. More insurgent planning approaches are needed to resist the corporate…
Queering the City
This paper uses examples drawn from US cities (Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia, and Ybor City in Tampa, Florida) to develop a more generalizable framework within which to analyze the process of queering a neighborhood and identifying policy measures that might keep it queer. This kind of comparative approach enables a more careful reading of queer urban spaces based on the behaviors of LGBTQ people in and around those spaces. The strategic aim of the…
Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 works) · Queer (7 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economics (5 works)