A Planning Palimpsest: Neoliberal Planning in a Welfare State Tradition
In this article, we analyse the evolution and transformation of Danish spatial planning from its tentative origins in liberalist politics, through its rise as a central feature of the welfare state project, to its more recent entrepreneurial forms in a context of neoliberalisation. The article demon...
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Politecnico di Torino
2015-06-01
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| description | In this article, we analyse the evolution and transformation of Danish spatial planning from its tentative origins in liberalist politics, through its rise as a central feature of the welfare state project, to its more recent entrepreneurial forms in a context of neoliberalisation. The article demonstrates how transformations of Danish spatial planning discourses and practices must be understood in context of previous discourses and practices sedimented as layers of meaning and materiality through time and over space. These layers do not completely overlay one another, but present a palimpsest saturated with contradictions as well as possibilities. We propose the notion of the ‘planning palimpsest’ as a helpful metaphor for drawing attention to the historical-geographical characteristics of planning discourses and practices |
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| spelling | doaj.art-939af855f2e34b75bcd5c0f922d772692023-04-14T09:46:55ZengPolitecnico di TorinoEuropean Journal of Spatial Development1650-95442015-06-0113312010.5281/zenodo.5141267214A Planning Palimpsest: Neoliberal Planning in a Welfare State TraditionHelen Carter0Henrik Gutzon Larsen1Kristian Olesen2Aalborg UniversityLund UniversityAalborg UniversityIn this article, we analyse the evolution and transformation of Danish spatial planning from its tentative origins in liberalist politics, through its rise as a central feature of the welfare state project, to its more recent entrepreneurial forms in a context of neoliberalisation. The article demonstrates how transformations of Danish spatial planning discourses and practices must be understood in context of previous discourses and practices sedimented as layers of meaning and materiality through time and over space. These layers do not completely overlay one another, but present a palimpsest saturated with contradictions as well as possibilities. We propose the notion of the ‘planning palimpsest’ as a helpful metaphor for drawing attention to the historical-geographical characteristics of planning discourses and practiceshttps://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/article/view/214denmarkpalimpsestplanning historyspatial planningwelfare stateneoliberalism |
| spellingShingle | Helen Carter Henrik Gutzon Larsen Kristian Olesen A Planning Palimpsest: Neoliberal Planning in a Welfare State Tradition European Journal of Spatial Development denmark palimpsest planning history spatial planning welfare state neoliberalism |
| title | A Planning Palimpsest: Neoliberal Planning in a Welfare State Tradition |
| title_full | A Planning Palimpsest: Neoliberal Planning in a Welfare State Tradition |
| title_fullStr | A Planning Palimpsest: Neoliberal Planning in a Welfare State Tradition |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Planning Palimpsest: Neoliberal Planning in a Welfare State Tradition |
| title_short | A Planning Palimpsest: Neoliberal Planning in a Welfare State Tradition |
| title_sort | planning palimpsest neoliberal planning in a welfare state tradition |
| topic | denmark palimpsest planning history spatial planning welfare state neoliberalism |
| url | https://journals.polito.it/index.php/EJSD/article/view/214 |
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