Matthew Wargent
Biographic Data
| ID | 1522690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Wargent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Wargent |
| SIGNATURE | WARGENT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1448-9383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Recognizing justice through neighbourhood scale planning in England
Towards everyday conceptions of justice in community-led planning
This paper draws upon a novel analytical framework to review a sample of community-led plans produced across the four nations of the United Kingdom. It explores how communities interpret issues of (in)justice and how they seek to address them. Focusing on plans produced by communities categorised as more deprived, the analysis shows that discussions of abstracted notions of equality, diversity and inclusion are almost entirely absent, with commun…
Embedding the land market
How land markets should be regulated is a fraught political question. This paper argues that the heterodox political economy of Karl Polanyi - underutilised in urban studies and planning scholarship - provides a useful language to analyse the role of urban planning in development land markets. We ground our analysis in the concept of embeddedness, building on Polanyi's core contention that economic behaviour is not, and cannot be, distinct from s…
‘Seeing Like a Citizen’
Introduction: Streets, Planning Knowledges, and Epistemic (in)JusticeEmilia Smeds and Ersilia VerlinghieriCitizen Epistemologies as the Driver of Public Plaza Equity in New York CityEmilia Smeds“La
Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England
Until recently there has been little critical consideration of the privatization of urban planning expertise. In this paper we draw on archival research in England to present an historical analysis of the role of private sector planners over the post-war period. In so doing, the paper provides one of the first considerations of changing historical perceptions of the roles of private sector professionals in the delivery of public planning, assessi…
Digital Participatory Planning
The idea that technological advances can facilitate better public participation in democratic decision making is a long-standing and seductive one. Nearly half a century ago, political scientists d
Localism and the will to housing
The planning system in England is regarded as a key mechanism for the delivery of housing but is also seen by some as a brake on its supply. In this context, the introduction of neighbourhood planning in 2011 has been promoted as a mechanism to reduce opposition to new housing and aid housing growth. This paper focuses on how this policy tool has been implemented with a view to mobilising communities to assist in the allocation of housing sites. …
Neighbourhood planning in England
Drawing on a mix of policy learning and new institutionalist theory, the paper sets out the empirical evidence regarding the unfolding of neighbourhood planning (NP) in England during more than ten years of participatory practice. What has been learned about how this policy has been shaped reflexively by institutional actors is reviewed, drawing on two significant national research studies. The contribution of the paper is to provide a detailed c…
Rethinking neighbourhoods
The COVID-19 pandemic has restricted the movements of millions of people around the world, causing our social and physical worlds to shrink. This enforced time spent in vicinity of our own homes offers us the opportunity to reflect on what we cherish and what we might wish to change about our own neighbourhoods. In this Viewpoint, we consider the effects of the pandemic on urban planning and design, and argue for an active commitment to creating …
The Future of the Planning Profession
This Interface emerged from a symposium on the future of the planning profession held at the University of Reading in September 2019. This reflected on present new challenges concerning the means, political standing, and substantive goals of planning across the globe. Some issues discussed are longer-run and continually shifting. The conditions and tasks faced by planning have morphed, as have the types of people and sectoral balance involved in …
Localism, governmentality and failing technologies
This paper analyses the localism agenda pursued in the UK since 2010 through the lens of governmentality. It examines how the state has deployed spatially based technologies of government predicated on particular political rationalities of localism that seek to orchestrate the ‘conduct of conduct’. The paper combats two oversights within the governmentality literature: first, the tendency to focus on the abstract, neglecting the messiness of actu…
Neighbourhood planning in England
Drawing on a mix of policy learning and new institutionalist theory, the paper sets out the empirical evidence regarding the unfolding of neighbourhood planning (NP) in England during more than ten years of participatory practice. What has been learned about how this policy has been shaped reflexively by institutional actors is reviewed, drawing on two significant national research studies. The contribution of the paper is to provide a detailed c…
Embedding the land market
How land markets should be regulated is a fraught political question. This paper argues that the heterodox political economy of Karl Polanyi - underutilised in urban studies and planning scholarship - provides a useful language to analyse the role of urban planning in development land markets. We ground our analysis in the concept of embeddedness, building on Polanyi's core contention that economic behaviour is not, and cannot be, distinct from s…
Localism, governmentality and failing technologies
This paper analyses the localism agenda pursued in the UK since 2010 through the lens of governmentality. It examines how the state has deployed spatially based technologies of government predicated on particular political rationalities of localism that seek to orchestrate the ‘conduct of conduct’. The paper combats two oversights within the governmentality literature: first, the tendency to focus on the abstract, neglecting the messiness of actu…
The Future of the Planning Profession
This Interface emerged from a symposium on the future of the planning profession held at the University of Reading in September 2019. This reflected on present new challenges concerning the means, political standing, and substantive goals of planning across the globe. Some issues discussed are longer-run and continually shifting. The conditions and tasks faced by planning have morphed, as have the types of people and sectoral balance involved in …
Localism, governmentality and failing technologies
This paper analyses the localism agenda pursued in the UK since 2010 through the lens of governmentality. It examines how the state has deployed spatially based technologies of government predicated on particular political rationalities of localism that seek to orchestrate the ‘conduct of conduct’. The paper combats two oversights within the governmentality literature: first, the tendency to focus on the abstract, neglecting the messiness of actu…
Rethinking neighbourhoods
The COVID-19 pandemic has restricted the movements of millions of people around the world, causing our social and physical worlds to shrink. This enforced time spent in vicinity of our own homes offers us the opportunity to reflect on what we cherish and what we might wish to change about our own neighbourhoods. In this Viewpoint, we consider the effects of the pandemic on urban planning and design, and argue for an active commitment to creating …
‘Seeing Like a Citizen’
Introduction: Streets, Planning Knowledges, and Epistemic (in)JusticeEmilia Smeds and Ersilia VerlinghieriCitizen Epistemologies as the Driver of Public Plaza Equity in New York CityEmilia Smeds“La
Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England
Until recently there has been little critical consideration of the privatization of urban planning expertise. In this paper we draw on archival research in England to present an historical analysis of the role of private sector planners over the post-war period. In so doing, the paper provides one of the first considerations of changing historical perceptions of the roles of private sector professionals in the delivery of public planning, assessi…
Digital Participatory Planning
The idea that technological advances can facilitate better public participation in democratic decision making is a long-standing and seductive one. Nearly half a century ago, political scientists d
Localism and the will to housing
The planning system in England is regarded as a key mechanism for the delivery of housing but is also seen by some as a brake on its supply. In this context, the introduction of neighbourhood planning in 2011 has been promoted as a mechanism to reduce opposition to new housing and aid housing growth. This paper focuses on how this policy tool has been implemented with a view to mobilising communities to assist in the allocation of housing sites. …
Neighbourhood planning in England
Drawing on a mix of policy learning and new institutionalist theory, the paper sets out the empirical evidence regarding the unfolding of neighbourhood planning (NP) in England during more than ten years of participatory practice. What has been learned about how this policy has been shaped reflexively by institutional actors is reviewed, drawing on two significant national research studies. The contribution of the paper is to provide a detailed c…
Embedding the land market
How land markets should be regulated is a fraught political question. This paper argues that the heterodox political economy of Karl Polanyi - underutilised in urban studies and planning scholarship - provides a useful language to analyse the role of urban planning in development land markets. We ground our analysis in the concept of embeddedness, building on Polanyi's core contention that economic behaviour is not, and cannot be, distinct from s…
Towards everyday conceptions of justice in community-led planning
This paper draws upon a novel analytical framework to review a sample of community-led plans produced across the four nations of the United Kingdom. It explores how communities interpret issues of (in)justice and how they seek to address them. Focusing on plans produced by communities categorised as more deprived, the analysis shows that discussions of abstracted notions of equality, diversity and inclusion are almost entirely absent, with commun…
Recognizing justice through neighbourhood scale planning in England
Political science (9 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Urban planning (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)