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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.38,Issue2,P.199-220

语言

英文

关键字

Entrepreneurial planning; rationality; tax increment financing; Chicago; PLANNING-THEORY; ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; URBAN REDEVELOPMENT; UNITED-STATES; GEOGRAPHIES; CITY; NEOLIBERALISM; GOVERNANCE; PLANNERS

作者单位

[Teresa, Benjamin F.] Univ Illinois, Urban Planning & Policy Program, Chicago, IL 60607 USA. [Teresa, Benjamin F.] CUNY, Grad Ctr, New York, NY 10016 USA. Teresa, BF (reprint author), Univ Illinois, Urban Planning & Policy Program, Chicago, IL 60607 USA.; Teresa, BF (reprint author), CUNY, Grad Ctr, New York, NY 10016 USA. E-Mail: bteresa@gc.cuny.edu

摘要

A central problem in planning is how planners can be both technical experts and political actors sensitive to the moral consequences of planning. Rationality refers to the reasons for choosing a means to achieve an end; a rationality that considers the morality of means and ends is value rationality, and one that does not is instrumental rationality. Through the case of using Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to subsidize corporate headquarters relocation in Chicago, I follow City follows planners' struggle with TIF policy and their engagement with instrumental and value rationality within a state that exercised an entrepreneurial planning strategy. This position meant that planners were constrained from acting value-rationally to consider and then take action on questions about the moral content of TIF projects. Nonetheless, planning staff developed an instrumentally-rational planning and policy exercise, which they performed as a way to channel their value-rational concerns about the assumption that every economic development project is an unambiguously valuable goal.