Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book argues that the concepts of 'neoliberalism' and 'neoliberalisation,' while in common use across the whole range of social sciences, have thus far been generally overlooked in planning theory and the analysis of planning practice. Offering insights...
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This book argues that the concepts of 'neoliberalism' and 'neoliberalisation,' while in common use across the whole range of social sciences, have thus far been generally overlooked in planning theory and the analysis of planning practice. Offering insights from papers presented during a conference session at a meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston in 2008 and a number of commissioned chapters, this book fills this significant hiatus in the study of planning. What the case studies from Africa, Asia, North-America and Europe included in this volume have in common is that they all reveal the uneasy cohabitation of 'planning' - some kind of state intervention for the betterment of our built and natural environment - and 'neoliberalism' - a belief in the superiority of market mechanisms to organize land use and the inferiority of its opposite, state intervention. Planning, if anything, may be seen as being in direct contrast to neoliberalism, as something that should be rolled back or even annihilated through neoliberal practice. To combine 'neoliberal' and 'planning' in one phrase then seems awkward at best, and an outright oxymoron at worst. To admit to the very existence or epistemological possibility of 'neoliberal planning' may appear to be a total surrender of state planning to market superiority, or in other words, the simple acceptance that the management of buildings, transport infrastructure, parks, conservation areas etc. beyond the profit principle has reached its limits in the 21st century. Planning in this case would be reduced to a mere facilitator of 'market forces' in the city, be it gentle or authoritarian. Yet in spite of these contradictions and outright impossibilities, planners operate within, contribute to, resist or temper an increasingly neoliberal mode of producing spaces and places, or the revival of profit-driven changes in land use. It is this contradiction between the serving of private profit-seeking interests while
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actually seeking the public betterment of cities that this volume has sought to describe, explore, analyze and make sense of through a set of case studies covering a wide range of planning issues in various countries. This book lays bare just how spatial planning functions in an age of market triumphalism, how planners respond to the overruling profit principle in land allocation and what is left of non-profit driven developments.
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Even though it is a reality that neoliberal social, economic and political processes directly and indirectly, implicitly and explicitly affect the urban planning discourses and practices and push them towards more market-oriented directions, 'neoliberalism' and 'planning' are very seldom used together in one phrase. Using neoliberal planning as a term may seem outright contradictory to some planners, or may be the sign of 'giving up' for others, but it is there, whether we like it or not, to explore and re-shape.
The main aim of this book is to fill the gap in this field by putting together a variety of approaches to neoliberal planning and to underline the growing diversity within the neoliberal urban policy implementation. Our focus is on neoliberal planning in advanced welfare societies and their responses. How do well-established welfare societies introduce the neoliberalisation of city planning? To what extent does that eat into welfare provision? Entrepreneurialism and property-led development have been accelerated through the neo-liberal project, making urban land and property markets key players in urban regeneration. Naturally, instruments of neoliberalism have been adopted within different policy contexts at different periods of time and have therefore different meanings and outcomes in different institutional contexts. How do urban politics interact with land and property markets? How do land and property markets evolve within these ever shifting contexts? What new actors are emerging? How are new power relations between key actors being established? What new instruments (land and property market instruments, legal instruments, urban design instruments, economic instruments, etc) are being invented? How do changes in land and property markets reflect those changes? And how are these reflected in urban planning literature?
Chapters in the book refer first to the particularities of neoliberal planning and urban development via land and property markets; and second, to the changes in the urban development regime that aim to regulate the land and property market, and specific implementation instruments. By using a wide variety of case studies the book will not only provide a first step to define the realities of neoliberal planning, but also offer rich scope of institutional point of views towards the implementation of the neoliberal urban policy across Europe.
The main aim of this book is to fill the gap in this field by putting together a variety of approaches to neoliberal planning and to underline the growing diversity within the neoliberal urban policy implementation. Our focus is on neoliberal planning in advanced welfare societies and their responses. How do well-established welfare societies introduce the neoliberalisation of city planning? To what extent does that eat into welfare provision? Entrepreneurialism and property-led development have been accelerated through the neo-liberal project, making urban land and property markets key players in urban regeneration. Naturally, instruments of neoliberalism have been adopted within different policy contexts at different periods of time and have therefore different meanings and outcomes in different institutional contexts. How do urban politics interact with land and property markets? How do land and property markets evolve within these ever shifting contexts? What new actors are emerging? How are new power relations between key actors being established? What new instruments (land and property market instruments, legal instruments, urban design instruments, economic instruments, etc) are being invented? How do changes in land and property markets reflect those changes? And how are these reflected in urban planning literature?
Chapters in the book refer first to the particularities of neoliberal planning and urban development via land and property markets; and second, to the changes in the urban development regime that aim to regulate the land and property market, and specific implementation instruments. By using a wide variety of case studies the book will not only provide a first step to define the realities of neoliberal planning, but also offer rich scope of institutional point of views towards the implementation of the neoliberal urban policy across Europe.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning “
Chapter 1: Introduction: Contradictions of Neoliberal Urban Planning: Tuna Tasan-KokChapter 2: Normalising Neoliberal Planning: The Case of Malmö, Sweden: Guy Baeten
Chapter 3: Neoliberal Urban Policy, Aspirational Citizenship and the Uses of Cultural Distinction: Mike Raco
Chapter 4: Contradictions in the Neoliberal Policy Instruments: What is the Stance of the State?: Ayda Eraydin
Chapter 5: Transnational Neoliberalisation and the Role of Suprenational Trade Agreements in Local Urban Policy Implementation: The Case of the European Union: Tuna Tasan-Kok and Willen Korthals Altes
Chapter 6: Neoliberal Urban Movements?: A Geography of Conflict and Mobilisation over Urban Renaissance in Antwerp, Belgium: Maarten Loopmans and Toon Dirckx
Chapter 7: Social Entrepreneurship in Urban Planning and Development in Montreal: Barbara van Dyck
Chapter 8: Washing their Hands of it? Auckland Cities' Risk Management of Formely Horticultural Land as Neoliberal Responsibilities: Cameron Smith and Brad Coombs
Chapter 9: Accumulation by Dispossession and Neoliberal Urban Planning "Landing" the Mega-projects in Taipei: Sue-Ching Jou, Anders Lund Hansen and Hsin-Ling Wu
Chapter 10: Neoliberalism, Shallow Dreaming and the Unyielding Apartheid City: Mark Oranje
Chapter 11: Neoliberal Planning: Does it Really Exist?: Guy Baetenational Neoliberalisation and the Role of Suprenational Trade Agreements in Local Urban Policy Implementation: The Case of the European Union: Tuna Tasan-Kok and Willen Korthals Altes
Chapter 6: Neoliberal Urban Movements?: A Geography of Conflict and Mobilisation over Urban Renaissance in Antwerp, Belgium: Maarten Loopmans and Toon Dirckx
Chapter 7: Social Entrepreneurship in Urban Planning and Development in Montreal: Barbara van Dyck
Chapter 8: Washing their Hands of it? Auckland Cities' Risk
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2011, XIX, 217 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Tuna Tasan-Kok, Guy Baeten
- Verlag: Springer Netherland
- ISBN-10: 9048189233
- ISBN-13: 9789048189236
Sprache:
Englisch
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This book is a must read for those interested in the archaeology and present condition of urban Zombie-neoliberalism. While the neoliberal economic project died with the financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, urban neoliberal recipes and strategies are still the only game in town for the elites. This seminal collection excavates the future, dystopian as it may be, of how the undead continue the haunt our cities. Is it not time to call in the Zombie busters? The reasons for such exorcism are indeed expertly laid out between the covers of this book. Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester, UK This book unravels skillfully the influence of international neoliberal ideologies on the predominant shift in planning practices and forces the reader to reflect on what is happening to planning's traditional concern about equity, social justice, accountability. Louis Albrechts, Emeritus Professor of Planning, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
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