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Second Call for Papers – AAG
2008
Third way urban policy: Land and property markets, instruments and
regulation
So-called
‘third way’ urban policies refer to a more wide-spread concept than
the Blair government’s soft(er) (compared to harsh-neoliberal project of
Thatcher) neoliberal policy development and implementation nowadays, and are
now disseminating throughout the world. Third way urban policy refers to an era
of rolled-out neoliberalism where
many urban governments around the world seek ways to implement neoliberal
policies and develop implementation instruments to ensure economic growth and
to safeguard some kind of social justice at the same time. Entrepreneurialism
and property-led development have been accelerated through the neo-liberal
project, making urban land and property markets key players in urban regeneration.
Naturally, instruments of neoliberalism have been adopted within different
policy contexts at different periods of time and have therefore different
meanings and outcomes in different institutional contexts. How do third way
politics interact with land and property markets? How do land and property
markets evolve within these ever shifting contexts? What new actors are emerging? How are new power relations between key
actors being established? What new instruments (land and property market
instruments, legal instruments, urban design instruments, economic instruments,
etc) are being invented? How do changes in land and property markets reflect
those changes? And how are these reflected in urban space?
Papers
in this session will take a critical approach to refer to two sides of the same
coin: first, the particularities of policy development and the implementation
via land and property markets of third way politics; and second, the changes in
the urban development regime that aim to regulate the land and property market,
and specific instruments that are developed to implement them. The main aim of
this session is to put together a variety of approaches (to third way urban
policy) to underline the growing diversity within the neoliberal urban policy
implementation. Paper topics may examine themes such as: role of urban
regeneration projects in neoliberal urban development, third way land and
property market instruments, market-led development and social welfare,
socially mixed communities, safe places, entrepreneurial policy and social
justice, and importance of urban design.
Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words before October,
15th to one of the following organizers:
Guy Baeten,
Tuna Tašan-Kok, Delft University
of Technology, The Netherlands, [log in to unmask]
Mark Boyle, National
University of Ireland at Maynooth, [log in to unmask]