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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953800803321

Autore

MacLaran Andrew

Titolo

Making Space : Property Development and Urban Planning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2014

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

0-203-76465-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

307.1/216

307.1416

Soggetti

City planning -- Case studies

City planning

Land use, Urban -- Case studies

Land use, Urban

Urban renewal -- Case studies

Urban renewal

Sociology & Social History

Communities - Urban Groups

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page  ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Creating urban space; 2 Masters of space: the property development sector; 3 Planning the city; 4 The rejuvenation of downtown Minneapolis: urban planning as a creature of private-sector interests ; 5 Planning central Sydney; 6 Dublin: property development and planning in an entrepreneurial city; 7 Remaking the city: property processes, planning and the local entrepreneurial state in Auckland

8 Reshaping and reinventing the city of Birmingham, UK: planning for enterprise and the information society9 Growth machines and growth pains: the contradictions of property development and landscape in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Making Space studies the built environment by examining the private-



sector forces responsible for its development and the urban planning systems put in place to influence, guide and manipulate its outcomes.  The first part provides a theoretical context for understanding the functions of the property development sector and the state's interventions through the medium of urban planning. It analyses the relationship between planning and development, and focuses on the increasingly widespread adoption of more pro-active entrepreneurial planning agendas as a response to a growi