TY - JOUR
T1 - (Dealing with) illegal drugs and unwanted land-use: a socially inclusive future planning imagination for drug consumption rooms
AU - Boland, Philip
AU - Sturm, Tristan
AU - Shorter, Gillian
PY - 2025/1/17
Y1 - 2025/1/17
N2 - This article discusses shifts in planning education. In particular, it highlights the future role of planners in the location of Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs). The UK’s experiment with DCRs raises an important question for planning education and professional practice: are future planners adequately equipped to deal with the ‘frontier politics’, stakeholder reactions and community views towards DCRs? This article reveals this is not the case, and suggests practical, structural changes to UK planning education to create a more socially inclusive planning imagination that engages effectively with illegal drugs and harm reduction interventions, and how the ‘illegal’ should be planned for.
AB - This article discusses shifts in planning education. In particular, it highlights the future role of planners in the location of Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs). The UK’s experiment with DCRs raises an important question for planning education and professional practice: are future planners adequately equipped to deal with the ‘frontier politics’, stakeholder reactions and community views towards DCRs? This article reveals this is not the case, and suggests practical, structural changes to UK planning education to create a more socially inclusive planning imagination that engages effectively with illegal drugs and harm reduction interventions, and how the ‘illegal’ should be planned for.
KW - Illegal drugs
KW - Unwanted land-use
KW - drug consumption rooms
U2 - 10.1177/0739456X251318245
DO - 10.1177/0739456X251318245
M3 - Article
JO - Journal of Planning Education and Research
JF - Journal of Planning Education and Research
ER -