Caroline KRAMER, KIT, Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Germany
Dietrich HENCKEL, TU Berlin, Germany
The framework of spatial justice is rooted in the planning laws of many states. Even if this guiding principle is increasingly questioned with regard to its feasibility, there is a broad consensus in planning that the equality of living conditions is a prerequisite for social cohesion and social peace (ARL 2020). In a working group of the Academy of Territorial Development (ARL), we have extended this concept by the dimension of time and propose to call the concept spatio-temporal justice. This extension allows us to better grasp both the inequalities or injustices that have existed in the past and those that have been created by the pandemic on different spatial scales. The focus is primarily on everyday access to resources and services, i.e., accessibility, and access to housing and green space, public and private services. This access – as a prerequisite of participating in social life – is provided by real and digital mobility, which requires economic resources and is subject to spatio-temporal restrictions.
The pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass to reveal existing and newly emerging spatio-temporal inequalities. At the same time these radical changes in our everyday spatio-temporal rhythms open a "window of opportunity": We have the chance to think about actively shaping the spatio-temporal structures of and within cities. The planning model of the temporally just city, which calls for both distributive and procedural justice, could be helpful here. An equitable distribution and accessibility of resources and opportunities, as well as transparent procedures in forming the rules for shaping this distribution, could pave the way to sustainable and livable cities (Henckel & Kramer 2019). This presentation will highlight some of these possibilities, which we, as a human geographer and an urban economist, want to consider in more detail.
Mots clés : spatio-temporal justice |temporal policies|access|temporally just cities |right to time
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