Urban development and the politics of dissonance
| Autor: | Dave Valler, Nicholas A. Phelps |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Corporate governance 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Public administration Dilemma Politics Action (philosophy) Urban planning Order (exchange) Political economy Political Science and International Relations Cognitive dissonance Sociology 050703 geography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Territory, Politics, Governance. 6:81-103 |
| ISSN: | 2162-268X 2162-2671 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21622671.2016.1231629 |
| Popis: | Urban development and the politics of dissonance. Territory, Politics, Governance. A major reason for the peripheral treatment of political conflict in established theories of urban development derives from the tendency to underplay questions of territory and spatial governance. In this paper, we examine the implications of territorial discrepancy amongst governance arrangements and introduce the notion of ‘urban political dissonance’ in order to engage sustained patterns of conflict or incongruity. This focus implies examination of strategic action on the part of competing urban interests which may result in policy incoherence, institutional manoeuvring in pursuit of divergent objectives and difficulties in finding workable compromise, with potentially significant implications for economic development outcomes. An illustrative case study is presented of growth politics in Oxford, UK, where a central and unresolved dilemma over the physical expansion of the city has effectively defined the nature ... |
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