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{"title":"The techno-finance fix: A critical analysis of international and regional environmental policy documents and their implications for planning","authors":"Trish Morgan","doi":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article is concerned with the interaction of international, regional and national policy on climate change and sustainability, and the implications of these policy dimensions for planning. With the scientific consensus pointing to unequivocal human influence on the ecosystem, the issue of how best to manage climate change and ecological sustainability is arguably now a matter for economic, political, policy and planning domains. However, despite the warnings of scientists that ‘business as usual’ economic accumulation is no longer an option, this analysis of international and regional policy suggests that in the main, solutions are proffered that merely shift forms of capital accumulation and enforce ‘business as usual’, rather than providing transformative trajectories to plan for climate change adaptation and mitigation.</p><p>This article traces key documents from an international level including United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, to EU regional policy, and sectoral policy at a sample national level. This is with a view to providing a theoretical backdrop, and a summary of selected relevant documentation that planners may be required to consider with respect to climate change issues. This article may therefore be considered in part, as a ‘map’ of the policy landscape for planners, highlighting the policy tensions and the conflicts that exist between international, regional and national levels of policymaking. These tensions largely lie between the areas of economic and ecological stability, and usually fail to reconcile contradictions between economic growth and protection of the ecosystem.</p><p>The article introduces the concept of the ‘techno-finance fix’ to analyse and critique the dominant solutions to climate change. These solutions involve a dovetailing of a hope in emergent, new and not-yet-existing technologies, with a hope that the markets will fund the correct types of technological innovation deemed necessary to mitigate climate change. Therefore, the implications for planning involve an imperative to respond to climate change, and knowledge in the key aspects of climate change policy. However, the response at a planning level depends on which dominant narratives are being forwarded from the top down at a multi-layered policy level. This work therefore suggests that the ‘techno-finance fix’ is a dominant approach to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and that planning for climate change is thus informed by this dominant narrative, to the marginalising of alternative solutions, including those outside the market or technology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"119 ","pages":"Pages 1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.progress.2016.06.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55034718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Coasian boundary inquiry on zoning and property rights: Lot and zone boundaries and transaction costs","authors":"Lawrence W.C. Lai ,&nbsp;Stephen N.G. Davies","doi":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Coase’s (1960) famous story of land use conflicts between two farms, as generalized in the Coase Theorem, injects into neo-institutional economics a potential to overcome the a-spatial limitations of neo-classical economics and contribute to theorization in planning as a science for delineating places for specific purposes, or zoning. In the light of the historical evolution in spatial division of labour and a review of the literature on the definitions and meaning of zoning, this exploratory interdisciplinary inquiry informed by neo-institutional economics, history of surveying and planning, attempts to use the corollary of the Coase Theorem, which highlights the significance of property boundaries, to explore several boundary scenarios in planned zoning that are of policy significance. They are conflicts of zoning, borderline non-zoning, incomplete zoning, forgotten zones, zoning for non-planning, rights-conferring zoning and co-development zoning. The transaction cost implications of these scenarios are spelled out. Examples from Europe, China, Australia and Americas are cited and elaborated where suitable to illustrate specific arguments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"118 ","pages":"Pages 1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.progress.2016.05.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41285383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Board /Aims and Scope","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30270-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30270-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"118 ","pages":"Page IFC"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30270-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138319724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Don’t think of them as roads. Think of them as road transport markets","authors":"Thomas Vanoutrive","doi":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For some time now, many planners have embraced the idea of congestion pricing, an idea that has its origins in the field of transport economics. A positive attitude towards pricing, however, seems to be at odds with values commonly held by planners. To clarify this paradox, we need to thoroughly understand the history and sociology of the idea, and to acquire such understanding, this dialogue discusses the claim that the history of thinking about congestion pricing can best be understood by seeing it as a discursive politics of the market. The current view on congestion and road pricing originated in the 1950s, and there is clearly a link between the dissemination of the idea of congestion pricing and the rise of neoliberal thinking in general, although a different, rather Keynesian, tradition has continued to exist since the early days. The article also presents some criticisms of congestion pricing based on technical, equity as well as normative arguments. Finally, some attention is devoted to the format of the paper, given that it is written as a dialogue.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"117 ","pages":"Pages 1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.progress.2016.04.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48023499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Board /Aims and Scope","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30210-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30210-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"117 ","pages":"Page IFC"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30210-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138222533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Board /Aims and Scope","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30163-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30163-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"116 ","pages":"Page IFC"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30163-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138241971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The size of cities: A synthesis of multi-disciplinary perspectives on the global megalopolis","authors":"José Edgardo Abaya Gomez Jr.","doi":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This interdisciplinary treatise integrates notions from the biological, geographical, sociological, politico-administrative, economic, psychological, futurist, and other scientific literature about the expansion of urban areas by taking the reader through a series of conjectures about the practical upper limits of the size of cities, and centering the discussion around the possibilities for a world-spanning megalopolis or city-planet. It specifically frames urban growth against a survey of known conceptual and logical limits established by previous research in the natural and social sciences, and demonstrates that while there are absolute and practical constraints to the establishment of what the author calls a Pangaean City, they might be overcome by new technologies, innovations in governance, and behavioral adjustments. The author also shows that there are prior, overlapping, or parallel sociopolitical and cultural constraints that govern city size, and that while these are not immutable, they represent sets of actual influences on development of the magnified urban form itself, including its reach beyond physical presence. Finally, while it is shown that a thorough-going planetary urbanization may be physically impossible, the research concludes by suggesting what planners can or should do about such a phenomenon. It further relates the discussion to the rich body of utopian planning literature, where the aspiration for an all-embracing urbanity remains to mirror the panoramic analyses of this paper.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"116 ","pages":"Pages 1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.progress.2016.03.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42234290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contracting out publicness: The private management of the urban public realm and its implications","authors":"Claudio De Magalhães,&nbsp;Sonia Freire Trigo","doi":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.progress.2016.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the UK, there has been a noticeable increase in public space management arrangements based on transfer and contracting-out of managerial responsibilities to organisations outside the public sector, whether in the shape of community or private trusts, tenants organisations, Business Improvement Districts, private companies or voluntary sector organisations. Recent cuts in local authority budgets have accelerated this process. Underpinning it there is an underlying assumption that publicness, however defined, can be guaranteed by means other than public ownership, funding and management, and that public sector ownership and direct control might not be in themselves essential features of spaces that are public. This paper reports on a case study research<span> that investigates the impact on public spaces of the transfer of management away from the public sector. Based on nine case studies of public spaces in London under a variety of different management arrangements, the paper discusses how publicness is affected by the various contractual forms of transfer and what the main implications of this process are for different stakeholders and for the public realm as a whole. The paper suggests that contracted-out management of public space might not necessarily affect publicness negatively. However, it requires judiciously designed accountability mechanisms and clear decisions by all key stakeholders, including local authorities, about whose aspirations will be privileged and how other aspirations should be protected. In a climate of austerity and spending cuts, this requires a different kind of public management and of policy.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"115 ","pages":"Pages 1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.progress.2016.01.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46921889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Board /Aims and Scope","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30107-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30107-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"115 ","pages":"Page IFC"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30107-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138193830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial Board /Aims and Scope","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30090-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30090-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47399,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Planning","volume":"114 ","pages":"Page IFC"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0305-9006(17)30090-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138286406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}