Book Companion Series — Centre for the Just City

Centre for the Just City · TU Delft

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Interactive reading guides, teaching resources, and conceptual tools for key works in spatial justice, planning theory, and urban governance — developed for students, researchers, and educators.

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75+

Chapters Covered

30+

Cities

Languages of Practice

Single Author ★ New 2026

Routledge · 2026 · ISBN 9781041075431

Spatial Justice: The Basics

Roberto Rocco

An accessible, rigorous introduction to spatial justice as both a theoretical concept and a practical framework for planning. Structured across four parts — Problem, Theory, Framework, Application — the book moves from the diagnosis of spatial injustice to conceptual tools for addressing it, with case studies spanning the Global North and South.

Spatial Justice Planning Theory Public Goods Right to the City Undergraduate / Masters

A Spatial Planning Guide to Public Goods cover

Single Author ★ New 2026

Palgrave Macmillan · 2026

A Spatial Planning Guide to Public Goods

Roberto Rocco

A theoretically grounded, practice-oriented guide to planning for public goods — from parks and infrastructure to knowledge commons and democratic participation. The book bridges institutional economics, political philosophy, and spatial planning to build a framework for equitable urban governance.

Public Goods Urban Governance Commons Spatial Justice Masters / Professional

Edited Volume ★ New 2026

Edinburgh University Press · Agenda Publishing · 2026

Insurgent Planning Practice

Roberto Rocco & Gabriel Silvestre (eds.)

Thirteen case studies from Antwerp to Makassar ask how planners operate — and what they can achieve — when they work outside or against state-sanctioned processes. A comparative anatomy of planning at the margins of formal governance, from feminist masterplanning in Belo Horizonte to post-conflict urbanism in Belfast.

Insurgent Planning Comparative Urbanism Right to the City Counter-Hegemony Masters / PhD

Handbook

Routledge · 2019 · ISBN 9780367659615

The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanisation

Roberto Rocco & Joan van Ballegooijen (eds.)

Twenty-five city studies across five continents — from Lagos to São Paulo, Kolkata to Cairo — examine informal urbanisation as a constitutive feature of global city-making. The companion includes a fully searchable city atlas with theme and region filters, 10 analytical lenses, and curated reading clusters for structured engagement.

Informality Global South Housing Rights Tenure Subaltern Urbanism

Single Author

Jap Sam Books · 2025

Envisioning Spatial Justice: Explorations, Reflections, Design

Caroline Newton

A visually and conceptually rich exploration of spatial justice through design practice, fieldwork, and critical reflection. Structured across four thematic parts, the book moves between urban analysis, design propositions, and justice theory to build a practice-grounded understanding of what it means to design for spatial equity.

Spatial Justice Urban Design Design Practice Reflection Studio / Masters

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About the Companion Series

The CJC Book Companion Series provides interactive reading infrastructure for key works in spatial justice, planning theory, and urban governance. Each companion is designed to support three audiences simultaneously: students encountering the material for the first time, educators building syllabi and class activities, and researchers using the books as primary references.

Companions include chapter-by-chapter reading guides with guiding questions, searchable glossaries of key concepts, teaching sessions with structured activities, clickable theorist tags, and reading progress tracking. All companions are freely accessible and require no login.

The series is developed by the Centre for the Just City at TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.

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