Spatial planning as condensation of social relations: A dialectical approach

Holgersen, Ståle

doi:10.1177/1473095213501672

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“…Indeed, the leading planning theory book does not mention Lefebvre until its fourth edition (Campbell & Fainstein, 2015) and then only in passing. This is despite one of the first Anglophone articles on Lefebvre and planning being published over two decades ago (Allen & Pryke, 1994) and a steady trickle of publications since then (e.g., Buser, 2012;Carp, 2008;Holgersen, 2015;Honeck, 2017;Leary, 2009). Perhaps this is partly because Lefebvre is regarded by many as a tough read (Schmid, 2014).…”

Section: Planning Theory and Practice: Lefebvre's Potential Contributmentioning

confidence: 84%

Henri Lefebvre, Planning’s Friend or Implacable Critic?

Leary-Owhin

2018

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Section: Planning Theory and Practice: Lefebvre's Potential Contributmentioning

confidence: 84%

Henri Lefebvre, Planning’s Friend or Implacable Critic?

Leary-Owhin

2018

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“…the spatiality of a major production system such as an industrial district) or their combination (e.g. urban areas based on trade relations and their emerging governance structures; or regionalization as the outcome of complex spatial articulation among diverse social relations as in Coraggio, 1983;Holgersen, 2015;Markusen, 1983;Pike, Rodríguez Pose, & Tomaney, 2011).…”

Section: Building the Methodological Bridge Between Asid And Demologomentioning

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Agency, structure, institutions, discourse (ASID) in urban and regional development

Moulaert

Jessop

Mehmood

2016

International Journal of Urban Sciences

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This paper presents the relations among agency (A), structure (S), institutions (I), and discourse (D) and their analytical relevance for socioeconomic development. It argues that an adequate account of these relations must recognize their inherent spatio-temporality and, hence, their space-time dynamics. This is not an optional extra but a definite descriptive and explanatory requirement. Moreover, while structure is recognized as a product of pathdependent institutionalization and path-shaping (collective) agency, agency is seen in turn as discursively and materially reproduced and transformed. This approach treats structure in terms of a differential spatio-temporal configuration of constraints and opportunities, reference to which informs the empirical analysis of strategic agency within the overall agency, structure, institutions, discourse (ASID) heuristic. The paper concludes with an eightfold typology of particular combinations of ASID features to guide analyses of socioeconomic development in all its (dis-) junctural complexity.

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“…According to Poulantzas, the state should neither be conceptualized as a thing nor a subject, but rather as a material condensation of social relations. I use a similar approach to understand urban policy, both epistemologically and ontologically: urban policy is neither something without autonomy (a thing) or with full autonomy (a subject), but must be grasped as dialectically related to structures and relations in society (see Holgersen 2015).…”

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Lift the class – not the place! On class and urban policies in Oslo

Holgersen

2020

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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Urban studies are still troubled by Friedrich Engels' argument from 1872: that the bourgeoisie's only method to solving housing problems is to shift them elsewhere. Through analysing urban policies in Oslo, Norway, this paper demonstrates that the almost 150-year-old argument is still relevant. This cannot be confronted without a better understanding of class as a complex and constituting process in relation to urban policy. In this paper class will be analyzed through three clusters of causal relations: (i) a stratification approach, (ii) an opportunity hoarding approach (related to Weber), and (iii) domination and exploitation (a Marxian approach). Urban polices in Oslo is to a large extent consistent with a stratification approachi.e. both individuals and places can become 'richer' and 'improve' without other individuals or places losing anythingand to some degree with a Weberian approachthe municipality wants to include local residents in education and labour markets. In order to confront the 'bourgeoisie method', we need to open the door to the third approach and discuss class in relation to the broader political economy. Rather than an area-programme with the aim of 'lifting the place', what is needed is class-programmes that aim at 'lifting the class'. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Spatial planning as condensation of social relations: A dialectical approach

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Henri Lefebvre, Planning’s Friend or Implacable Critic?

Henri Lefebvre, Planning’s Friend or Implacable Critic?

Agency, structure, institutions, discourse (ASID) in urban and regional development

Lift the class – not the place! On class and urban policies in Oslo

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