Locating rationalities in planning: market thinking and its others in the spaces, institutions, and materials of contemporary urban governance

Rivero, Juan J.; Teresa, Benjamin F.; West, John H.

doi:10.1080/02723638.2016.1206703

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“…The turn to a market-based solution to the problems of Detroit's public school system (and the failure of this solution) is far from an isolated event but rather a reflection of the growth of market logics as the proposed fix to problems in North American cities (Robinson, 2016) and as a powerful rationality shaping urban governance (Rivero, Teresa, & West, 2017). Indeed, as areas from transportation infrastructure (Birch and Siemiatycki, 2016) to public housing (Rosenman, 2018) have become subject to increasingly severe market logics, the resulting change in urban governance has been characterized by Akers (2015Akers ( , p.1842 as the "[emergence of a] market city, a city restructured in the service of markets and governed as a series of micro-market geographies.…”

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“A marketplace of schools”: race, power, and education reform in the Detroit region

Cohen

2020

Urban Geography

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Over the past several decades market-based systems have increasingly been used to govern the delivery of schooling and other urban services. Drawing on insights from the geography of markets, this paper investigates how marketbased policies such as interdistrict choice and charter school programs have reshaped the delivery of publicly-funded schooling in the Detroit region. Through doing so it explores how these market systems are made to align with the interests of actors who advance market structures that rework (rather than remake or challenge) existing patterns of wealth and racial power. As described in this paper, such market systems must be understood as shaped by the economic, political, and social contexts they emerge from, with Detroit's regional context of racial segregation and anti-Blackness a key element in the creation of new market institutions governing schooling. Understanding markets in this manner allows for new insights into how the articulation of market logics with urban geographies shapes the lives of those who depend on urban services.

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“A marketplace of schools”: race, power, and education reform in the Detroit region

Cohen

2020

Urban Geography

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Modernity, Urban Planning and Informality

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Gumbo

2021

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The risky business of real estate developers: network building and risk mitigation in London and Johannesburg

Brill

Robin

2019

Urban Geography

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Recent work on financialisation in urban political economy and economic geography has highlighted real estate developers as a point of analysis for understanding urban governance and ongoing urban restructuring. This paper argues the relational strategies of developers revealed in this work is informed by the existence of a series of risks which they have to mitigate throughout a project's lifecycle. As a result, there is a need for more geographically sensitive-and relational-understanding of real estate risk, and how it influences actors' strategies in places. Building on two examples from Johannesburg and London, this paper explores the relationship between risk, real estate and urban transformation. In highlighting the different roles developers assume: as knowledge coalition builders, political actors and community builders we demonstrate how developers employee specific relational strategies to counter threats to the implementation of their projects.

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Locating rationalities in planning: market thinking and its others in the spaces, institutions, and materials of contemporary urban governance

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

“A marketplace of schools”: race, power, and education reform in the Detroit region

“A marketplace of schools”: race, power, and education reform in the Detroit region

Modernity, Urban Planning and Informality

The risky business of real estate developers: network building and risk mitigation in London and Johannesburg

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