Planning and LGBTQ Communities

Petra L. Doan is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Florida State University. She has published numerous articles and chapters on queer planning issues, including several path-breaking articles on transgender experiences of gendered urban spaces. Her edited book Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice was published by Ashgate in 2011.

"This book represents a clarion call to student, academic and practising planners and politicians to open their ears, eyes and minds to the question of sexuality. Petra Doan is to be commended for assembling this landmark contribution to planning scholarship, which highlights the challenges LGBTQ communities continue to endure in the twenty-first century whilst also showcasing the contributions they make in creating dynamic and vibrant cities." Paul J. Maginn, Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia"How can planners contribute to building urban societies that are truly diverse and inclusive? Planning and LGBTQ Communities helps answer this critical question as the authors unpack how LGBTQ residents, who also embody a range of intersectional differences, experience and shape urban life outside the familiar gay neighborhoods. This is a necessary contribution to an overlooked subject." Dr. Renia Ehrenfeucht, University of New Orleans"Planning lags behind its sister disciplines in the scholarship of LGBTQ communities and issues. With Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces, Petra Doan and colleagues close some of this gap. As a course text, their book will bring fresh ideas to planning students' understanding of diversity, and provides practical advice for the practice of planning. Cases presented extend well beyond the "iconic" locales and will make visible to readers layers of LGBTQ communities that have been relatively invisible to the institutions of planning." - Gwen Urey, Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona"Moving beyond conceptions of a static, bounded 'gay ghetto', this important and timely volume considers the varied ways in which LGBTQ identified individuals have occupied, moved through and transformed cities. Though mainly focused on US cities, the questions raised by this book are far from parochial, and encourage a wider reflection on the ways that planning serves the interests of diverse communities. A provocative plea that LGBTQ rights to the city should be recognised, and honoured." - Professor Phil Hubbard, University of Kent"This book is a wonderful collection of excellent essays that addresses a key issue, how do we plan for LGBTQ people? Bringing together the world’s leading scholars, this insightful, perceptive and engaging book is a must read for all in planning, urban studies as well as geographies. There can be little doubt that this is a groundbreaking book that will be useful for teaching as well as research." - Dr. Katherine Browne, University of Brighton

• Chapter 1 –Why Plan for the LGBTQ Community? PART ONE PLANNING AND LGBTQ POPULATIONS IN TRADITIONAL GAY NEIGHBORHOODS Chapter 2 -Gay Commercial Districts in Chicago and the Role of Planning Chapter 3 -The Dallas Way: Property, Politics, and Assimilation Chapter 4 -Fractures and Fissures in "Post-Mo" Washington, DC: The Limits of Gayborhood Transition and Diffusion PART TWO: PLANNING AND LGBTQ POPULATIONS OUTSIDE THE GAY VILLAGE Chapter 5 -Thinking Beyond Exclusionary Gay Male Spatial Frames in the Developing World Chapter 6 -The Pervasiveness of Hetero-Sexism and the Experiences of Queers in Everyday Space: The Case of Cambridge, Massachusetts Chapter 7 -Identifying and Supporting LGBTQ Friendly Neighborhoods in the American South: The Trade-off Between Visibility and Acceptance PART THREE: EXPANDING PLANNING HORIZONS: RECOGNIZING LGBTQ INTERSECTIONALITY Chapter 8 -Finding Transformative Planning Practice in the Spaces of Intersectionality Chapter 9 -Southern Discomfort: In Search of the LGBT-Friendly City Chapter 10 -The Queer Cosmopolis: The Evolution of Jackson Heights Chapter 11 -Lesbian Spaces in Transition: Insights from Toronto and Sydney PART FOUR: LINKING PLANNING AND LGBTQ ACTIVIST GROUPS TO ENSURE SERVICE DELIVERY Chapter 12 -Act Up versus Straighten Up: Public Policy and Queer Community-Based Activism Chapter 13 -Place / Out: Planning for Radical Queer Activism Chapter 14 -The Racial Politics of Precarity: Understanding Ethno-specific AIDS Service Organizations in Neoliberal Times Chapter 15 -Beyond Queer Space: Planning for Diverse and Dispersed LGBTQ Populations