Robert W. Lake
Current Organizations / Institutes
The organizations/institutes from the scholar's latest article
Robert W. Lake has a total of 3 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
Andrew W. Zitcer
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1 shared publication- Kathe Newman
Rutgers University, USA
1 shared publication - Susan Hanson
School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- 28 August 2012
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Vol. 32 (4) , 389-399
Who Says? Authority, Voice, and Authorship in Narratives of Planning Research
Recent developments in communicative planning theory and participatory research methods emphasize collaboration between researcher and research subject in the process of knowledge production. We ask how the ideal of collaboration that is integral to the process of data collection extends to the authorial phase of planning narratives and we identify ethical, pragmatic, and substantive justifications for collaborative authorship. The multidisciplinary literature on the city reveals a variety of approaches to authorship including empathetic evocation, selective deployment, dialogic collaboration, and uninterpreted transcription. More successful collaboration might require the avoidance of abstraction, an emphasis on contextualization and intersubjectivity, and a reimagining of social science from inquiry to conversation.
- 28 August 2012
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Vol. 32 (4) , 389-399
Who Says? Authority, Voice, and Authorship in Narratives of Planning Research
Recent developments in communicative planning theory and participatory research methods emphasize collaboration between researcher and research subject in the process of knowledge production. We ask how the ideal of collaboration that is integral to the process of data collection extends to the authorial phase of planning narratives and we identify ethical, pragmatic, and substantive justifications for collaborative authorship. The multidisciplinary literature on the city reveals a variety of approaches to authorship including empathetic evocation, selective deployment, dialogic collaboration, and uninterpreted transcription. More successful collaboration might require the avoidance of abstraction, an emphasis on contextualization and intersubjectivity, and a reimagining of social science from inquiry to conversation.
- 4 November 2003
- Published by Wiley in Social Science Quarterly
- Vol. 84 (4) , 1002-1017
Dilemmas of Environmental Planning in Post‐Urban New Jersey*
- 4 November 2003
- Published by Wiley in Social Science Quarterly
- Vol. 84 (4) , 1002-1017
Dilemmas of Environmental Planning in Post‐Urban New Jersey*
- 1 December 2002
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Vol. 26 (4) , 815-822
Bring back big government
Despite widespread claims of its demise, the national state is the scale of the state institution best able to marshal the political, discursive and material resources necessary to achieve goals of social justice, defined as a decrease in income inequality, at local, national and global scales. The appearance of the withering away of the state is deceptive, since it is the state itself that is enacting the distribution of functions that some observers interpret as a reduction in state power. The arguments for a return of big government are both strategic and tactical. Strategically, central government has been responsible for every major social policy advance in the United States in the twentieth century. Tactically, the institutions comprising decentralized governance, including local governments, non–profit foundations and community–based organizations, are inadequate to the task. The role of big government in pursuit of social justice entails discursive and regulatory functions, each in turn suggesting an attendant political project for academics and activists. What is at stake is not a quantitative redistribution of state power but a qualitative redirection of the purposes to which that power is applied. Uncritical insistence on the end of the nation state may create a self–defeating self–fulfilling prophecy that conceals important opportunities for political realignment.L’Etat nation est à la meilleure échelle pour mobiliser les ressources politiques, discursives et matérielles nécessaires à la poursuite de la justice sociale, définie comme la réduction des inégalités de revenu aux échelles locales, nationales et globales, et ce malgré les affirmations répandues sur le retrait de l’Etat. L’apparence d’effacement de l’Etat est trompeuse puisque c’est l’Etat luui même qui organise la réallocation des fonctions que certains observateurs interprètent comme une réduction du pouvoir de l’Etat. L’argument en faveur d’un retour du ‘big government’ sont à la fois stratégiques et tactiques. D’un point de vue stratégique, le gouvernement central a été responsable de toutes les grandes avancées sociales du Xxème siècle aux USA. Sur le plan tactique, les institutions de gouvernance décentralisée comprenant le gouvernement local, les fondations à but non lucratif et les organisations communautaires ne peuvent pas faire face à ces tâches. Le rôle du gouvernement dans la poursuite de la justice sociale comprend des fonctions régulatives et discursives, chacune d’entre elle renvoyant à des projets politiques pour les activistes et les universitaires. Ce n’est pas la réallocation de l’autorité qui est en jeu mais une réorientation des objectifs du pouvoir. L’accent mis sans réserve sur la fin de l’Etat nation pourrait crééer une prophétie auto–créatrice auto–défaitiste qui dissimulerait les vraies opportunités de réorientation politique.
- 1 December 2002
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Vol. 26 (4) , 815-822
Bring back big government
Despite widespread claims of its demise, the national state is the scale of the state institution best able to marshal the political, discursive and material resources necessary to achieve goals of social justice, defined as a decrease in income inequality, at local, national and global scales. The appearance of the withering away of the state is deceptive, since it is the state itself that is enacting the distribution of functions that some observers interpret as a reduction in state power. The arguments for a return of big government are both strategic and tactical. Strategically, central government has been responsible for every major social policy advance in the United States in the twentieth century. Tactically, the institutions comprising decentralized governance, including local governments, non–profit foundations and community–based organizations, are inadequate to the task. The role of big government in pursuit of social justice entails discursive and regulatory functions, each in turn suggesting an attendant political project for academics and activists. What is at stake is not a quantitative redistribution of state power but a qualitative redirection of the purposes to which that power is applied. Uncritical insistence on the end of the nation state may create a self–defeating self–fulfilling prophecy that conceals important opportunities for political realignment.L’Etat nation est à la meilleure échelle pour mobiliser les ressources politiques, discursives et matérielles nécessaires à la poursuite de la justice sociale, définie comme la réduction des inégalités de revenu aux échelles locales, nationales et globales, et ce malgré les affirmations répandues sur le retrait de l’Etat. L’apparence d’effacement de l’Etat est trompeuse puisque c’est l’Etat luui même qui organise la réallocation des fonctions que certains observateurs interprètent comme une réduction du pouvoir de l’Etat. L’argument en faveur d’un retour du ‘big government’ sont à la fois stratégiques et tactiques. D’un point de vue stratégique, le gouvernement central a été responsable de toutes les grandes avancées sociales du Xxème siècle aux USA. Sur le plan tactique, les institutions de gouvernance décentralisée comprenant le gouvernement local, les fondations à but non lucratif et les organisations communautaires ne peuvent pas faire face à ces tâches. Le rôle du gouvernement dans la poursuite de la justice sociale comprend des fonctions régulatives et discursives, chacune d’entre elle renvoyant à des projets politiques pour les activistes et les universitaires. Ce n’est pas la réallocation de l’autorité qui est en jeu mais une réorientation des objectifs du pouvoir. L’accent mis sans réserve sur la fin de l’Etat nation pourrait crééer une prophétie auto–créatrice auto–défaitiste qui dissimulerait les vraies opportunités de réorientation politique.
- 1 October 2002
- Published by Springer Nature in GeoJournal
- Vol. 58 (2-3) , 109-120
Differential citizenship in the shadow state
- 1 October 2002
- Published by Springer Nature in GeoJournal
- Vol. 58 (2-3) , 109-120
Differential citizenship in the shadow state
- 1 January 2000
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography
- Vol. 21 (1) , 1-4
NEEDED: GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH ON URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
- 1 January 2000
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography
- Vol. 21 (1) , 1-4
NEEDED: GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH ON URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
- 1 July 1999
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography
- Vol. 20 (5) , 393-395
POSTMODERN URBANISM?
- 1 July 1999
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography
- Vol. 20 (5) , 393-395
POSTMODERN URBANISM?
- 1 January 1997
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography
- Vol. 18 (1) , 1-3
CHAUNCY HARRIS AND EDWARD ULLMAN, “THE NATURE OF CITIES”: A FIFTIETH YEAR COMMEMORATION
- 1 January 1997
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography
- Vol. 18 (1) , 1-3
CHAUNCY HARRIS AND EDWARD ULLMAN, “THE NATURE OF CITIES”: A FIFTIETH YEAR COMMEMORATION