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ID090008
Title ProperMaster-planned residential developments
Other Title Informationbeyond iconic spaces of neoliberalism?
LanguageENG
AuthorMcGuirk, Pauline ;  Dowling, Robyn
Publication2009.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Master-planned residential development has proliferated as a new residential phenomenon in metropolitan areas globally. The trend, the new governance mechanisms it entails and resultant forms of urban development have been critically theorised as products and vectors of neoliberalisation and iconic spaces of the neoliberal city. However, tracing the emergence and enactment of master-planned residential estate (MPRE) development in Sydney, Australia, this paper suggests that more contingent and contextualised theorisations of such spaces can reveal possibilities for animating a different politics of MPREs. Deploying theorisation sensitive to the multiple drivers, logics and political projects played out through MPRE development in situated contexts, the paper traces the political genesis of these developments in Sydney, outlines the multiple drivers and logics accounting for their growing popularity and points to the salience of the complex performance of land and housing markets in their production. The post-structural political economy approach used here to investigate MPRE development can overcome the politically constraining effects of the dominant neoliberal critique. It does so, first, by opening analysis up to the importance of logics, actions and contexts that are irreducible to neoliberalism and, second, by gesturing towards the potential for an alternative politics to be animated through mechanisms, techniques and processes of MPRE development habitually associated with neoliberalism.
`In' analytical NoteAsia Pacific Viewpoint Vol. 50, No. 2; Aug 2009: p.120-134
Journal SourceAsia Pacific Viewpoint Vol. 50, No. 2; Aug 2009: p.120-134
Key WordsMaster-Planned Residential Development ;  Neoliberalism ;  Sydney ;  Post-Structural Political Economy ;  Political Economy


 
 
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