Planning, Law, and Sexuality: Hiding Immorality in Plain View

摘要: Emerging research in sexuality and space outlines the diverse forms of spatial governmentality used to discipline non-normative sexual behaviours, exploring how exclusion, concealment, repression combines ensure that 'immoral' sexualities are out sight 'moral majority'. In this paper, we explore contention relation planning for sex service premises (brothels) New South Wales, Australia. Though such now legal, our analysis nonetheless considers way these have been subject constraint reflect planners' assumptions about appropriate manifestation within urban landscape. By exposing written into law legal but potentially disorderly, demonstrate evidential power reinforce dominant moral geographies through instruments which, at first glance, appear be focused on objective questions amenity 'best use land'. This paper hence explores ways which planners translated disorder categories visibility distance, meaning brothels become hidden plain view so as not disturb integrity residential 'family' spaces. © 2013 Institute Australian Geographers.