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Centre or Periphery? Town Planning and Spatial Political Economy

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  • J B McLoughlin

    (School of Environmental Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia)

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In this paper I argue that the debate about urban and regional planning is polarised into two competing ‘discourses’ of town planning and political economy. I assert that the language and concepts of town planning continue to take precedence in both the field of practice and in teaching and research and that this is a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. Town planners relegate urban and regional political economy to the periphery and place town planning at the centre. This is a conservative situation in that most town planning education places great emphasis on plans and very little on ‘how cities and regions work’. I recommend the abandonment of ‘planning’ education in favour of spatial political economy which might sit easiest in human geography.

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  • J B McLoughlin, 1994. "Centre or Periphery? Town Planning and Spatial Political Economy," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 26(7), pages 1111-1122, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:26:y:1994:i:7:p:1111-1122
    DOI: 10.1068/a261111
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