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Urban peripheries: reflecting on politics and projects in Amsterdam, Milan, and Paris

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  • Federico Savini
  • Stan Majoor
  • Willem Salet

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In this paper we question the political and financial drivers of urban development in the contemporary context of multiactor and multilevel governance. We focus on the processes that drive spatial planning and large-scale development projects in the inner periphery of three metropolitan areas: Amsterdam, Paris, and Milan. Peripheral development is conceptualized as the outcome of the realignment of three major sources of urban power: the national government, the core city, and large market investors. Early research has largely demonstrated how each of these elements influences metropolitan transformations, often separately, with special focus on economic logics of development. We propose to instead empirically investigate the political drivers of the changing relationship between these three powers. Focusing on three particular projects, we show how different spatial outcomes of peripheral development spring from a particular articulation of the relationship between the three sources of power. These relationships are pinned over electoral strategies of power consolidation, political confrontation between emerging parties, and their (dis)connections with business interests.

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  • Federico Savini & Stan Majoor & Willem Salet, 2015. "Urban peripheries: reflecting on politics and projects in Amsterdam, Milan, and Paris," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 33(3), pages 457-474, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:33:y:2015:i:3:p:457-474
    DOI: 10.1068/c13132
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    1. Margherita Carlucci & Francesco Maria Chelli & Luca Salvati, 2018. "Toward a New Cycle: Short-Term Population Dynamics, Gentrification, and Re-Urbanization of Milan (Italy)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-12, August.

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