The Everyday Emergency
Planning and Democracy Under Austerity Regimes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn G Loh (0000-0003-2285-9089, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 832-863 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087415577639 |
| OpenAlex | W2051619973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 33 |
In the last several years, the governor of Michigan has placed seven cities under the control of emergency managers (EMs), who have the authority to make drastic cuts and rearrangements of public processes and services. I investigate what happens to planning processes under these circumstances, and how EMs use planning to accomplish their goals. I find that many of the cities devote renewed attention to planning, and that the planning process may function as an alternative public participation process, given that the normal democratic process had been disrupted. I also find that the implementation of the plans is likely to be problematic because of staffing cuts, and that planning in itself cannot solve the structural problems that led to these cities’ financial distress
Business · Control (management · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Emergency management · Emergency planning · Function (biology · Governor · Management · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public participation · Public relations · Staffing · Computer Science · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance · Urbanization and City Planning
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Facilitating Public Participation in Local Governments in Hard Times
Mothers' perceptions of educational access and engagement in a context of urban austerity
Geographies of Local Government Stress after the Great Recession
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Who owns the future city? Phases of technological urbanism and shifts in sovereignty
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Pragmatic municipalism or austerity urbanism? Understanding local government responses to fiscal stress
Limits of Property Taxes and Charges
How Municipal Takeovers Reshape Urban Democracy
Limits of fiscal federalism
The bounds of smart decline
Errors Expected — Aligning Urban Strategy with Demographic Uncertainty in Shrinking Cities †
Pushing austerity
Picking up the pieces
Saving Land but Losing Ground
Four Potential Disconnects in the Community Planning Process
Right-Sizing Cities in the United States
Civic engagement in American democracy
Poverty and place
Shrinking ‘Smart’
Using content analysis to evaluate local master plans and zoning codes
Urban shrinkage as a performance of whiteness
A Ladder Of Citizen Participation
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Greening the Rust Belt
New Directions in Planning Theory
Collaborative Planning in Perspective
Resisting Neoliberalization
Urban Population Loss in Historical Perspective
Urban shrinkage in Germany and the USA
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |