Shifting Agendas
Private Consultants and Public Planning Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6404720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Orly Linovski (0000-0002-1088-8053, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1666-1701 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/1078087417752475 |
| OpenAlex | W2790453443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 62 |
Despite concerns about the privatization of urban planning practices, there is little known about the professional actors involved in this restructuring. Private-sector consultants, though beholden to the same professional standards as public-sector employees, face competing pressures of an entrepreneurial fee-for-service business model. This article examines the role of planning consultants in shaping public policy agendas, by analyzing the redevelopment of Downsview Park in Toronto, Ontario. Drawing from interview and archival data, I find that private-sector planning consultants had influence in prioritizing policy agendas by propagating the need for sped-up processes and allowing landowners to “pay for priority.” The fluidity of professionals between firms, sectors, and projects reinforced the perceived value and neutrality of consultant expertise. These strategies worked to erode the differences between public- and private-sector planning processes, resulting in a high degree of influence for development interests
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Face (sociological concept · Neutrality · Political science · Private sector · Public policy · Public relations · Public sector · Redevelopment · Restructuring · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Public Administration · Public-Private Partnership Projects · Urban Planning and Governance · Finance
Navigating the state-market nexus
Planning Culture and Local Agents of Change
Design Governance, Austerity and the Public Interest
Planning Just Futures
‘Like Nailing Jelly To A Wall’
The role and significance of planning consultants as intermediary-actors
The regressive planning practice of private sector planners under the pressure of political and market forces in Turkey
Placemaking in post-devolution Scotland
Serving the public interest? Towards a history of private sector planning expertise in England
Challenges of consultant-led planning in India’s smart cities mission
The making of the skyline
Challenges in outsourcing local spatial planning in Poland
Examining the consultocratisation of urban planning in the UK
Who sets the ethical boundaries? The privatisation of checks and balance in planning
Symbolic or substantive? Intermediaries and the practice of public participation
Early Career Planners in a Neo-liberal Age
Consultocracy and urban planning in Pakistan
Disentangling the multiple roles of neighbourhood planning consultants in the English planning system. A view from within
The Bounded and Pragmatic Consultant
Disparate goals, progressive ideals? Professional biographies of planners in the UK and their ideas of ‘mission’
Profit or public service? Tensions and alignment in private planning practice
Question your teaspoons
Everything Counts
Understanding Quality in Planning Consultancy
The Policy Cycle
A commentary on local authority commercialisation strategies
Planners are Society’s Humanisers”
The Value of Planning
Shareholder as client
Post planning-decision process
We need to put what we do in my dad’s language, in pounds, shillings and pence’
Conceptualising ‘street-level’ urban design governance in Scotland
Seeding the cloud
Land use planning and the making of a ‘properly propertied’ Vancouver
Tacit domains
The Consultant's intermediary role in the regulation of molecular diagnostics in the US
More than just experts for hire
Embedding futurity in urban governance
Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society
Rationality and power
Professionalism
What Is a Case?
The collaborating planner?
The Rise of Professionalism
City Limits
Urban Fortunes
Collaborative Visioning or Urban Planning as Therapy? The Politics of Public-Private Policy Making
Case Study Research
Changing Toronto
Planning the Capitalist City
City Planners and Public Service Motivation
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism
The New Localism, Anti-Political Development Machines, and the Role of Planning Consultants
Toward a Political Urban Planning
Externalization of policy advice
Regulatory capitalism and the reassertion of the public interest
The Changing Role of Consultants in Canadian Policy Analysis
Planning Consultants’ Influence on Local Comprehensive Plans
Politics of Expertise
The Political Economy of Growth Machines
Does Sector Matter? An Analysis of Planners’ Attitudes Regarding Politics and Competing Interests in the Planning Process
How planners deal with uncomfortable knowledge
The Professional Association’s Role
Professionals and Urban Form
Toronto Inc? Planning the Competitive City in the New Toronto
New Public Management in Public Sector Organizations
The Steering Group as Policy Advice Instrument
Explaining the use of planning consultants in O ntario cities
Globalizing Regulatory Capitalism
Multinetwork Management
Governing the Hollow State
The New Managerialism and the Policy Influence of Consultants in Government
Varieties of Regulatory Capitalism
The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism
Survey 16; Privatization and the Rhetoric of Planning Practice
Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
The urban process under capitalism
Delivering Flagship Projects in an Era of Regulatory Capitalism
Governance Restructuring in Los Angeles and Toronto
The state's estate
Old Mega-Projects Newly Packaged? Waterfront Redevelopment in Toronto
Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research
Professional authority and state power
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |