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  title info:
    title: Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning
    sub title: Cities, Policies, and Politics
  name:
    name part: Tasan-Kok, Tuna.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Baeten, Guy.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 220 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 …
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Contradictions of Neoliberal Urban Planning: Tuna Tasan-Kok -- Chapter 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 Baeten.
  note: edited by Tuna Tasan-Kok, Guy Baeten.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: Geography, general
  classification: GF1-900
  classification: 304.2
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: GeoJournal Library, 102
  identifier: 9789048189243
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8924-3
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    record creation date: 110923
    record change date: 20151204164054.0
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