Mapping Possibility

<p>Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual professional and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning nearly half a century as an educator researcher artist and practitioner Sandercock is one of the leading figures in community planning dedicating her life to pursuing social cultural and environmental justice through her work.</p><p>In this book Leonie Sandercock reflects on her past writings and films which played an important role in redefining the field in more progressive directions both in theory and practice. It includes previously published essays in conjunction with insightful commentaries prefacing each section and four new essays two discussing Sandercock’s most recent work on a feature-film project with Indigenous partners. Innovative visionary and audacious Leonie’s community-based scholarship and practice in the fields of urban planning and community development have engaged some of the most intractable issues of our time – inequality discrimination and racism. Through award-winning books and films she has influenced the planning field to become more culturally fluent addressing diversity and difference through structural change.</p><p>This book draws a map of hope for emerging planners dedicated to equity justice and sustainability. It will inspire the next generation of community planners as well as current practitioners and students in planning cultural studies urban studies architecture and community development.</p>