Planning Tools and Policies under Neoliberal Politics for Urban Renewal

Book Reviews Planning World Cities: Globalisation and Urban Politics

Does globalisation lead to convergence? This question is pervasive in all fields of social science and currently the dominant answer sounds like the following: although globalisation has been the dominant discourse during the past 15 years and has changed agendas and policies, regional, national and local cultures and institutions still strongly shape social and political processes and outcomes...

Neoliberal Utopia and Urban Realities in Delhi

Since 1991, the city of Delhi in India has become a focal point of economic liberalization. Economic liberalization has been accompanied by local government efforts to attract both foreign and domestic investment, particularly in the service sectors of the economy. The attraction of investment has been achieved by spatial reconfiguration, pitting the interest of global and domestic capital agai...

Urban planning, urban Management & Urban Air Pollution and solutions for solving it

In response to the facts that some Asian developing countries were experiencing the fastest rate of industrialisation and urbanisation, several international initiatives called for a better and ‘sustainable’ urban management. Development of management tools including strategic environmental assessment (SEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), cost benefit analysis (CBA), and environmental managemen...

Are we all neoliberals now? Urban planning in a neoliberal era

Urban infoscapes: new tools to inform city design and planning