Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process

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ID11670448
AutoresKevin Keenan (0000-0002-5892-6768, Rowan University, autor correspondente), Mahbubur Meenar (0000-0002-0869-3249, Rowan University)
Ano2023
Volume45
Fascículo5
Páginas818-839
Data de publicação2023-08-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02723638.2023.2241325
OpenAlexW4385900293
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas46

We situate this paper within the geographies of policy, and we draw from the Discipline of Planning to conceptualize policy analysis as a communicative act. Blending such ideas with geographical concepts leads us to a place ontology, which recognizes that the policymaker's life world is rooted in place and thus influences how that person makes professional decisions. We explore these concepts via in-depth, in-person interviews with 15 non-profit/community stakeholders in an exceptionally poor and environmentally distressed community in Philadelphia (USA). Our data provide insight into a subset of the policy-making community, while our results advance understanding of how policy analysis is conducted. This paper demonstrates that the current public policy process ignores an important feature of analysis (i.e., place ontology) – especially when studying a distressed community for which existing methods of analysis may be poorly suited – while simultaneously providing guidance on how to correct this deficiency.KEYWORDS: Placepublic policypolicy analysisPhiladelphiaontologygeography of policy AcknowledgementsWe acknowledge and are grateful for our research participants, as well as the editors, reviewers, and staff at Urban Geography who undeniably helped us improve this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Legislation. City Council of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, City of Philadelphia, https://phila.legistar.com/Legislation.aspx, last accessed 16 March 2023.Additional informationFundingThis work is supported by the US Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields Area-Wide Planning (BF-AWP) Program (grant number 96351701). The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the agency

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