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Planning as a Heterosexist Project

National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

The author argues that a key to understanding interactions between urban planning and lesbian and gay communities is to recognize that urban planning developed as a heterosexist project. Based on works in lesbian and gay history, he notes how the development of modern planning arose at the same time as modern conceptions of sexual orientation. Early planners were cognizant of lesbians and gays. Analyzing key texts of urban planning, the author shows how the heterosexist project works through unquestioned acceptance of Katz’s key assumptions of heterosexuality. He builds the argument by examining three dualisms within planning discourse: order/disorder, family/household, and public/private. While much of the analysis is historical, the author finds that planning continues to reinforce repression of lesbians and gays through laws, ordinances, and regulations. Analysis of emerging lesbian and gay enclaves must start with this background of repression. He concludes by suggesting several starting points for inclusive planning.

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 21, No. 3, 254-266 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X0202100303


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