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(Dealing with) Illegal Drugs and “Unwanted Land-Use”: A Socially Inclusive Future Planning Imagination for Drug Consumption Rooms

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: 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 United Kingdom’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 toward DCRs? This article reveals this is not the case and suggests practical, structural changes to U.K. 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.

Source: Journal of Planning Education and Research

DOI: 10.1177/0739456x251318245

Authors: Philip Boland, Tristan Sturm, Gillian W. Shorter

Institution: Queen's University Belfast

Language: English

Topic: HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,900

OpenAlex ID: W4408581011

FWCI: 1.81

Cites: 89

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10