The Spatial Justice Package is the TU Delft Centre for the Just City’s structured response to a recurring question from cities, planners and policy-makers: how do we move spatial justice from theory into practice? Rather than offer a single tool or a single framework, the package gathers six interlocking resources: a conceptual model, a planning cycle, a benchmarking instrument, a handbook, a periodic table of the wider vocabulary and a workshop format. They can be used individually or as a coherent ensemble.

Five of these resources, the conceptual model, the planning cycle, the benchmarking tool, the handbook and the periodic table, now also live as standalone, interactive pages of their own. This page introduces each of them and links out to the full versions; the workshop kit remains here in full.

The package was developed within the Horizon Europe project UP2030 (Urban Planning and Design Ready for 2030), where TU Delft leads a Work Package on benchmarking spatial justice. Its purpose is to give cities transitioning towards climate neutrality a way of asking whether their transitions are also just — and a vocabulary, a method and an evaluation grid for answering that question with their stakeholders.

The resources gathered here are open access. They are intended for cities working on transitions, planning professionals, public servants, civic organisations, and university programmes in urbanism, architecture, public policy and political science.

The Conceptual Model supplies the vocabulary: three dimensions of justice, distributive, procedural and recognitional, broken into nine operational components. The Planning Cycle puts that vocabulary to work across ten steps of an ordinary planning process, and the Benchmarking Tool scores a plan or project against the same nine components. The Handbook carries the full argument behind all three, and the Periodic Table sets out the wider vocabulary they draw on.

The package benefited from the wider Centre for the Just City and the UP2030 consortium. Andrés Maglione (University of Naples Federico II), Russell Smith (Winston-Salem State University) and Shahryar Sarabi (University of Utrecht) sat on the organising committee of the 2023 symposium that stress-tested the early model. The UP2030 consortium partners — the pilot cities, the universities and the technology SMEs — were the audience, the testbed and the critical interlocutors throughout.