Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning Cities, Policies, and Politics
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 insigh
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The GeoJournal Library Volume 102 Managing Editor:
Daniel Z. Sui, College Station, USA Founding Series Editor:
Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board: Paul Claval, France
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Tuna Ta¸san-Kok · Guy Baeten Editors
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Editors Dr. Tuna Ta¸san-Kok Department of City and Regional Planning Middle East Technical University Ankara Turkey OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Delft University of Technology Jaffalaan 9, 2628 BX Delft The Netherlands [email protected]
Dr. Guy Baeten University of Lund Department of Social & Economic Geography Sölvegatan 12 223 62 Lund Sweden [email protected]
ISSN 0924-5499 ISBN 978-90-481-8923-6 e-ISBN 978-90-481-8924-3 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-8924-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011937374 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Kop van Zuid (Rotterdam): A product of Neoliberal planning
Preface
The idea for this book on the contradictions of neoliberal planning first came about in April 2008 while the editors were relaxing on a sunny terrace on Massachusetts Avenue in Boston at the culmination of a long and successful Association of American Geographers (AAG) session that they had organised. The credit crunch had not yet become a major topic of discussion, although the first signs of the looming crisis had been brought up during the session. Later, while sitting on the lawn of the beautiful, sunny garden of the AAG venue in Washington DC and discussing the final arrangements for this book in April 2010, the devastating consequences of the credit crunch had become clearly visible and were the subject of various conference sessions, meaning that while writing and editing this book we were experiencing first hand just how the contradictions of neoliberalism could affect our cities and lives. The financial crisis and its impact on cities and urban planning may not feature prominently in this book, but we nevertheless hope to open up unexplored conceptual grounds by explicitly bringing together ‘neoliberalism’ and ‘planning’ to fill a major gap in planning theory. Our primary focus is to underline the contradictions created by the forces of neoliberal policies in planning theory and practice. How does planning in well-established welfare societies deal with neoliberalisation processes? To wh
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