What changes over time? Planning history and institutional change from a policy design perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21601638 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Byeongsun Ahn (0000-0001-6851-6132, University of Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 2535-2554 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Planning Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0965-4313 • E-ISSN: 1469-5944 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09654313.2024.2377796 |
| OpenAlex | W4400688311 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 39 |
Since the call to take the analytical and theoretical values of historical institutionalism seriously, planning history research has emphasized the enduring legacies of critical moments that structure the developmental pathways of urban institutions, whose changes tend to appear incremental in the long run. Yet, most of this work is less conscious about deliberate – although not always successful – considerations by policy actors in formulating policies and conflates changes in institutional arrangements with changes in policy effects. This article fills these gaps from a policy design perspective, explaining the changing policy effects of the same institutional arrangements over time through design processes such as layering. To this end, it introduces Vienna's participatory urban renewal model, Soft Urban Renewal, highlighting its context-bound design space in which policy actors choose and rearrange existing instruments according to shifting policy objectives and circumstances. Two cases of Soft Urban Renewal from two different points in time are chosen to cross-compare their varying capacities to influence its real-world effect under different contextual constraints. It concludes with some final remarks on the ways in which a policy design perspective can contribute to the current debate on planning history research and comparative-historical analysis of cities and their institutions and policies
Citizen journalism · Economics · Historical institutionalism · Institutionalism · New institutionalism · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration · Urbanization and City Planning
Kunst macht Stadt
Process-Tracing Methods
Taking path dependence seriously
A path dependent systems perspective on participation in municipal land-use planning
Taking critical junctures seriously
Vienna’s planning history
The Institutional Dynamics of Land Use Planning
Unpacking the Ecuadorian spatial planning law
Critical junctures and path dependence in urban planning and housing policy
Policy capacities and effective policy design
Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design
Patching vs Packaging in Policy Formulation
Rethinking path dependence in public policy research
The Dependent Variable Problem in the Study of Policy Change
Studying Incremental Institutional Change
Reconceptualizing layering—From mode of institutional change to mode of institutional design
How policy instruments are chosen
Designing policies that could work
Introduction
Defending the past by challenging the future
Courts and the Puzzle of Institutional Stability and Change
Informative Regress
Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics
Path dependence in historical sociology
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |