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Statecraft, scalecraft and urban planning: a comparative study of Birmingham, UK and Brisbane, Australia

Pemberton, S; Searle, G

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G Searle



Abstract

Recent discussions on state rescaling have pointed towards the need for a greater focus on how and why state activity may change over time in order to generate insights into the provenance, trajectories and outcomes of rescaling in different global regions and national state spaces. Consequently, this paper explores the dialectical and recursive relationship between the concepts of “statecraft” and “scalecraft” to explore the evolving sites, objects and mechanisms for urban planning within two key urban centres in different parts of the world—Birmingham, UK, and Brisbane, Australia. It is illustrated how a range of actors—from the national to the local level—have sought to craft and reshape the strategies and structures for urban planning according to different imperatives. In turn, the implications for a tighter specifying of the process of state rescaling are considered, as well as the subsequent nature of urban planning arrangements.

Acceptance Date Jul 27, 2015
Publication Date Aug 28, 2015
Journal European Planning Studies
Print ISSN 0965-4313
Publisher Routledge
Pages 76-95
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2015.1078297
Keywords urban planning, rescaling, statecraft, scalecraft
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2015.1078297

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