Sunday, 16 February 2014

Allmendinger, Philip: Planning Theory (2nd Ed) 2009 CHAPTER 4

Critical Theory

The essence of critical theory is to change society rather than simply understand and analyze it. (p. 79)
Key proposition: urban areas and planning are linked with society
- help expose planning's  complicity with state, nation, capitalism (p. 90)

David Harvey
- capitalism is tied to location and built environment (p. 86)

"Symbiotic relationship between the urban and capital will have given some strong clues as to why some form of state intervention is land and property is required. Thre are basically two reasons. The first is that capitalism cannot provide all of the conditions that it needs to continue. In particular, infrastructure such as roads, bridges etc. are not commodities like land or labour that can be bought asn dold because they involve a great deal of capital investment with little or no return. Other services and commodities such as parks, refuse collection and low-cost housing also fall into this category." (p.89)

EVERYTHING THAT IS MISSING IN COLONIAS IS WHAT IS MISSING IN CAPITALISM, EVEN THOUGH COLONIAS ARE CUT OF TO SOME EXTENT? HRM

neo-liberalism: capitalism is self-regulating



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