JUSTice for territorial PLANning

Social disadvantages are reinforced in spatial organisation. Spatial inequalities are being exacerbated by polarisation effects, associated with phenomena such as segregation, decline or gentrification. This puts places in very different positions to provide quality of life for their communities in a sustainable way and to develop territorialised policies to deal with the uncertainty and systemic risks of contemporary societies. Planning policies have shown difficulties in dealing with or even properly recognising, specific and structural inequalities.

The JUSTPLAN project addresses these issues by articulating normative principles of justice with objective measures and subjective conceptions. JUSTPLAN follows a multi-scale, mixed-methods approach to assessing justice in access to three public policy domains: housing, education and health.

The project seeks to:

• Establish theoretical framework of different principles of justice, relating them to different spatial structures
• Develop and apply measures to assess inequality patterns on a national scale
• Analyse how agents, policy-makers and society in general understand justice in planning contexts
• Examine the relationship between social justice and the development of different territories from the point of view of public policies

  29/03/2021   28/03/2024   SDS

Project Coordinator

João Lourenço Marques
Full Researcher
Systems for Decision Support – SDS

Internal Members