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Design determinism, post-meltdown: urban planners and the search for policy relevance

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  • Paul Knox
  • Lisa Schweitzer

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This commentary explores the roles of planning and urban design in contemporary US urbanization following the global financial crisis in Fall 2008. We focus on the tendency to discuss the planning profession in recovery metaphors -- a perspective that has been emphasized in establishing how the profession's past and future relevance may be asserted. In the recent past the planning profession has sought to recover its standing and policy relevance through its contributions to real estate development. In doing so, the profession has gravitated toward design and determinism in order to satisfy pluralist demands within the loosely regulated political economy of neoliberal urban growth. But while design determinism offered numerous practical advantages to the planning profession for the short term, it also served to preclude the profession from engaging with social justice, the social construction of place, and civil society.

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  • Paul Knox & Lisa Schweitzer, 2010. "Design determinism, post-meltdown: urban planners and the search for policy relevance," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(2), pages 317-327, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:20:y:2010:i:2:p:317-327
    DOI: 10.1080/10511481003738617
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    1. Matti Siemiatycki & Elliot Siemiatycki, 2016. "The role of the scholar in times of crisis," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(7), pages 1246-1261, July.
    2. Talia Margalit & Nurit Alfasi, 2016. "The undercurrents of entrepreneurial development: Impressions from a globalizing city," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(10), pages 1967-1987, October.

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