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Envisioning Spatial Justice
+++Explorations, Reflections, Design+++
+++Caroline Newton+++
ISBN 978-94-93329-44-7
Price € 27,50
Compilation, editor & author Caroline Newton
Additional texts Roberto Rocco, Juliana Gon.alves, Rodrigo Viseu Cardoso, Johanathan Subendran, Divya Gunnam, Oliwia Jackowska, Wendy van der Horst, Jonah van Delden, Daniëlle Lens, Marh Echtai, Gosia Rybak, Hilde Blank
Editorial assistance Sarah D. Westwood
Final editor Eleonoor Jap Sam
Design Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder, Ludwig Galla)
Number of pages 304
Book size 16 x 24 cm
Printer Wilco Art Books
Lithography Alex Feenstra
Binding softcover
Language English
Release date June 13, 2025
Publisher Jap Sam Books
This publication is supported by the EFL Foundation, the Department of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, and the Centre for the Just City and was made possible through the Van Eesteren Fellowship awarded to Caroline Newton in 2019.
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Just like the rebels in Star Wars fighting for freedom against oppressive forces, urban planner, architect and political scientist Caroline Newton was drawnto the struggles over space and rights around the world. This fascination grew into an inquiry into the entanglements of spatial organisation and structures of power. Over the years, her work has been driven by a desire to understand – and intervene in – the spatial conditions that shape human lives and social relations. In 2019, the Van Eesteren Fellowship enabled her to deepen her exploration of ways to reimagine urban environments that foster equity, care, and inclusivity, especially in response to today’s environmental and political urgencies.
Envisioning Spatial Justice is both a reflection and a proposition. It synthesises insights accumulated through research and teaching and from years of collaborating with students whose graduation projects placed justice at the core of their spatial investigations. Structured around theory, reflection, and design, the book explores what it means to design with justice in mind. Challenging neoliberal paradigms and drawing on feminist, post-colonial, and radical urban theory, it insists on the political power of imagination. It calls for developing new ethical foundations for spatial practice. Part provocation, part toolkit, part manifesto, Envisioning Spatial Justice speaks to urbanists, designers, educators, and activists committed to co-creating more just and inclusive futures.
About the author: Caroline Newton is an architect, urban planner, and political scientist whose work centres on the intersection of design, spatial justice, and social change. Her career illustrates a commitment to combining scholarly insight with advocacy, illustrating how architecture, planning, and policy can collaboratively address contemporary urban challenges. In her doctoral work, Newton investigated social housing, urban policy, and social capital in Cape Town’s post-apartheid context – an early indication of her lifelong concern with the ways space and power intersect to (re)produce inequalities. Throughout her subsequent roles at universities across Europe, including KU Leuven and University College London’s Development Planning Unit, Newton’s research consistently interrogated entrenched urban inequities and advocated for more inclusive planning practices.
In her current position at TU Delft, Caroline Newton embraces both pedagogy and research as engines of transformation. Central to Newton’s approach is her conviction that planning has the potential to be an act of resistance. She argues that strategic interventions in the built environment can unsettle oppressive power structures and reimagine alternative social, economic, and political possibilities. Her teaching draws on critical theorists, particularly Marcuse and Soja, and feminist scholars, such as hooks and Mohanty, encouraging students to question the status quo, engage with complexity, and envision new urban futures. Newton cultivates a classroom culture of ownership, agency, and creativity. Students are encouraged to identify and expose injustices, examine their own positions, and value diverse standpoints. Influenced by Mohanty, her pedagogy encourages students to engage with difference and dissent, reflecting an awareness of how power, privilege, and conflict shape both knowledge production and spatial realities. Caroline Newton’s commitment to translating theory into action is evident in her co-founding of the Centre for the Just City, in collaboration with Roberto Rocco. This platform brings practitioners, scholars, and students together to develop, share, and critique methods for creating equitable urban spaces. The Centre’s activities, including its Manifesto for the Just City initiative, convene international dialogues on pressing issues of spatial exclusion, climate adaptation, conflict and participatory planning.
As the Van Eesteren Fellow from 2019 to 2024, Caroline Newton explored how spatial justice can be embedded in design practice at all scales – neighbourhood, city, and region. Reflecting on her journey in the introduction to this book, she underscores the importance of never losing sight of dreaming big while grappling with institutional and political complexities. By championing imagination and hope alongside rigorous critique, Caroline Newton exemplifies an engaged urban scholar whose work seeks to redefine the foundations of design education and urban planning to serve a more just world.
Explorations, Reflections, Design
€27.50
Envisioning Spatial Justice
Explorations, Reflections, Design
€27.50
Architectuur / Vormgeving / Theorie / Verwacht / Stedenbouw
ISBN 978-94-93329-44-7
Price € 27,50
Compilation, editor & author Caroline Newton
Additional texts Roberto Rocco, Juliana Gon.alves, Rodrigo Viseu Cardoso, Johanathan Subendran, Divya Gunnam, Oliwia Jackowska, Wendy van der Horst, Jonah van Delden, Daniëlle Lens, Marh Echtai, Gosia Rybak, Hilde Blank
Editorial assistance Sarah D. Westwood
Final editor Eleonoor Jap Sam
Design Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder, Ludwig Galla)
Number of pages 304
Book size 16 x 24 cm
Printer Wilco Art Books
Lithography Alex Feenstra
Binding softcover
Language English
Release date June 13, 2025
Publisher Jap Sam Books
This publication is supported by the EFL Foundation, the Department of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, and the Centre for the Just City and was made possible through the Van Eesteren Fellowship awarded to Caroline Newton in 2019.
Just like the rebels in Star Wars fighting for freedom against oppressive forces, urban planner, architect and political scientist Caroline Newton was drawnto the struggles over space and rights around the world. This fascination grew into an inquiry into the entanglements of spatial organisation and structures of power. Over the years, her work has been driven by a desire to understand – and intervene in – the spatial conditions that shape human lives and social relations. In 2019, the Van Eesteren Fellowship enabled her to deepen her exploration of ways to reimagine urban environments that foster equity, care, and inclusivity, especially in response to today’s environmental and political urgencies.
Envisioning Spatial Justice is both a reflection and a proposition. It synthesises insights accumulated through research and teaching and from years of collaborating with students whose graduation projects placed justice at the core of their spatial investigations. Structured around theory, reflection, and design, the book explores what it means to design with justice in mind. Challenging neoliberal paradigms and drawing on feminist, post-colonial, and radical urban theory, it insists on the political power of imagination. It calls for developing new ethical foundations for spatial practice. Part provocation, part toolkit, part manifesto, Envisioning Spatial Justice speaks to urbanists, designers, educators, and activists committed to co-creating more just and inclusive futures.
About the author: Caroline Newton is an architect, urban planner, and political scientist whose work centres on the intersection of design, spatial justice, and social change. Her career illustrates a commitment to combining scholarly insight with advocacy, illustrating how architecture, planning, and policy can collaboratively address contemporary urban challenges. In her doctoral work, Newton investigated social housing, urban policy, and social capital in Cape Town’s post-apartheid context – an early indication of her lifelong concern with the ways space and power intersect to (re)produce inequalities. Throughout her subsequent roles at universities across Europe, including KU Leuven and University College London’s Development Planning Unit, Newton’s research consistently interrogated entrenched urban inequities and advocated for more inclusive planning practices.
In her current position at TU Delft, Caroline Newton embraces both pedagogy and research as engines of transformation. Central to Newton’s approach is her conviction that planning has the potential to be an act of resistance. She argues that strategic interventions in the built environment can unsettle oppressive power structures and reimagine alternative social, economic, and political possibilities. Her teaching draws on critical theorists, particularly Marcuse and Soja, and feminist scholars, such as hooks and Mohanty, encouraging students to question the status quo, engage with complexity, and envision new urban futures. Newton cultivates a classroom culture of ownership, agency, and creativity. Students are encouraged to identify and expose injustices, examine their own positions, and value diverse standpoints. Influenced by Mohanty, her pedagogy encourages students to engage with difference and dissent, reflecting an awareness of how power, privilege, and conflict shape both knowledge production and spatial realities. Caroline Newton’s commitment to translating theory into action is evident in her co-founding of the Centre for the Just City, in collaboration with Roberto Rocco. This platform brings practitioners, scholars, and students together to develop, share, and critique methods for creating equitable urban spaces. The Centre’s activities, including its Manifesto for the Just City initiative, convene international dialogues on pressing issues of spatial exclusion, climate adaptation, conflict and participatory planning.
As the Van Eesteren Fellow from 2019 to 2024, Caroline Newton explored how spatial justice can be embedded in design practice at all scales – neighbourhood, city, and region. Reflecting on her journey in the introduction to this book, she underscores the importance of never losing sight of dreaming big while grappling with institutional and political complexities. By championing imagination and hope alongside rigorous critique, Caroline Newton exemplifies an engaged urban scholar whose work seeks to redefine the foundations of design education and urban planning to serve a more just world.
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