Dr Kai Gu is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland. Supported by the British Economic and Social Research Council, the Canadian International Development Agency and the Natural Science Foundation of China, most of his research publications are on urban morphology and planning. His recent research projects explore the spatial composition of urban landscapes and socio-economic processes in the production of (in)justice.
Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested. Spatial justice provides an integrative and unifying theory concerning place, policies, people and their interplay, but ambiguities about its practical bases have undermined its application in planning.
Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested. Spatial justice provides an integrative and unifying theory concerning place, policies, people and their interplay, but ambiguities about its practical bases have undermined its application in planning.
Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested. Spatial justice provides an integrative and unifying theory concerning place, policies, people and their interplay, but ambiguities about its practical bases have undermined its application in planning.