The Politics of City Building: Pro-Growth Planning Regimes And Equitable Distribution of Infrastructure
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Brock, Timothy J.
- Other Affiliation: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
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Crick, Jeffrey S.
- Other Affiliation: City Planner, City of Columbia, South Carolina
- Abstract
- Neoliberal governance and pro-growth planning regimes divide the urban form into small patches of private development. This division results in a fragmentation of infrastructure and an increase in socio-spatial inequalities. City planners and policymakers evaluate the value of urban infrastructure projects based on economic development potential, including anticipated economic revenues and return on investment. Because of this, infrastructure and service distribution become clustered in commercial districts, which have the greatest potential for economic growth. The authors critique the conventional economic evaluation criteria for infrastructure and services projects and highlight the infrastructural inequity that results from growth-oriented planning. This paper presents transit oriented development as an example of pro-growth planning and suggests new planning obligations and evaluation processes that incorporate the everyday uses of public infrastructure projects.
- Date of publication
- 2013
- DOI
- Resource type
- Article
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- In Copyright
- Journal title
- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 38
- Page start
- 17
- Page end
- 24
- Language
- English
- Digital collection
- Carolina Planning Journal
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