Projections 12: New Approaches to Law and Planning
Projections, the Journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, focuses on the most innovative and cutting edge research in planning. Each volume is devoted to a different topic of interest to planning scholars, students, and professionals. As a peer-reviewed publication, Projections welcomes original high quality submissions at the vanguard of planning theory and practice.
This volume of Projections brings together five empirical research articles that advance the intellectual project described in this introductory essay. They are not likely to provide a comprehensive survey of the ground that Planning Law needs to cover; a systematic mapping of various legal and planning traditions that have emerged in the past five decades and the empirical research already being conducted in the intersectional spaces would be too ambitious a goal for this volume. However, the articles in this volume do offer some direction regarding areas might benefit from further research. In the next two sections, I identify some of the key contributions of these five articles by grouping them under the following headings: a) the sources of Law; and b) the mechanisms of socio-legal change.