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来源

CITIES,Vol.61,P.117-127

语言

英文

关键字

Neoliberalism; Topic; Competitiveness; Public; Politics; Economy; Waterfront; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY; PLANNING PRACTICE; CITY WATERFRONT; SOFT SPACES; GOVERNANCE; BELFAST; CRISIS; EXPERIMENTATION; TRANSFORMATIONS

作者单位

[Boland, Philip; Bronte, John; Muir, Jenny] Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Nat & Built Environm, David Keir Bldg,Stranmillis Rd, Belfast BT9 5AG, Antrim, North Ireland. Boland, P (reprint author), Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Nat & Built Environm, David Keir Bldg,Stranmillis Rd, Belfast BT9 5AG, Antrim, North Ireland. E-Mail: p.boland@qub.ac.uk; jbronte02@qub.ac.uk; j.muir@qub.ac.uk

摘要

This paper responds to the empirical and conceptual challenges concerning public benefit. In an era of neoliberal urbanism the waterfront has become a focal point of planning intervention; however, this raises important political issues concerning the distributional consequences of redeveloping large tracts of derelict land and dilapidated property. The central line of inquiry concerns what benefits, for whom and where emerge on the waterfront under neoliberal urbanism? In grounding the empiricism we focus on the neoliberal planning of Belfast's waterfront through a detailed discussion of Laganside (1989-2007) and Titanic Quarter (2001-present). Despite major transformation in Belfast city centre and on the waterfront, plus the ongoing peace process, the imprints of volatile identity politics and severe social deprivation are entrenched in other areas of the city. Given this, Belfast provides a unique and instructive case to critically explore the socio-spatialities of public benefit in a neoliberalised, pdliticised and polarised urban landscape. More broadly our research talks to ongoing debates on the conceptual merit and practical utility of public benefit as a central organising principle for spatial planning. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.