Neoliberalist Planning? Re-thinking and Re-casting Sydney's Metropolitan Planning

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ID5877234
AuthorsPauline Mcguirk (0000-0002-6688-9661, University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author), Pauline M Mcguirk
Year2005
Volume43
Issue1
Pages59-70
Publication date2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-5863 • E-ISSN: 1745-5871
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-5871.2005.00297.x
OpenAlexW2118882531
LanguageEN
Citations received61

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

Archaeology · Art · Casting · Civil engineering · Environmental planning · Geography · Metropolitan area · Regional science · Urban planning · Visual arts · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban Planning and Governance

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