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Title
Neoliberalist planning? Re-thinking and re-casting Sydney's metropolitan planning
Author/Creator
McGuirk, Pauline M.
Description
This paper argues that neoliberalism should be viewed not as a unified coherent project but as a series of complex and overlapping strategies that produce hybrid and always emergent forms of governance. To substantiate this argument, the paper reflects on the recent history of Sydney's metropolitan planning and rejects any simple characterisation of its having been transformed from a social-democratic to a neoliberal form of governance. Instead it traces the unevenness with which neoliberalist aspirations and forms of governance have been enacted through metropolitan planning. In particular, it examines the enduring scope of state institutional capacity to pursue desired spatial and distributional outcomes through planning and suggests that the current reinvigoration of Sydney's metropolitan planning is an opportunity to enhance that capacity and to pursue 'after-neoliberalist' planning possibilities.
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Geographical Research Vol. 43, no. 1, p. 59-70
Date
2005
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Asia
Keyword(s)
Hybrid governance forms;  Metropolitan planning;  Neoliberalism;  State capacity
Resource Type
journal article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/25282
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ISSN:1745-5863
Language
eng
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