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Transforming transport planning in the postpolitical era

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The aim of this paper is to examine how the postpolitical era of planning has created both binaries and intersections in the reimaging of transport futures and how the latter precipitates a redefinition of democratic transport prioritisation. Focusing particularly on the point in the transport planning process when urban transport priorities are identified, the paper explores how citizens respond to the inherently political, yet not always democratic, aspects of setting transport investment priorities. This relationship is investigated through a single case study of Melbourne, Australia where a six km inner city road tunnel was deemed a ‘done deal’ by elected officials in the lead up to a state election, removing the controversial project from open public scrutiny. Drawing upon ethnographic research and semi-structured interviews with community campaigners opposing the proposed East West Link road tunnel, this analysis reveals how community-based groups and individual residents alike can evolve beyond NIMBY-focused agitation to garner a spatially dispersed re-politicisation of urban transport priorities. While the postpolitical framing of infrastructure delivery introduces a binary between state interventionist planning and citizen opposition, it is the mobilisation of action through the spaces of intersection where new political paradigms for transport planning are created.

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  • Crystal Legacy, 2016. "Transforming transport planning in the postpolitical era," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(14), pages 3108-3124, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:53:y:2016:i:14:p:3108-3124
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098015602649
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    1. Patricia Molina Costa, 2014. "From plan to reality: Implementing a community vision in Jackson Square, Boston," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(3), pages 293-310, September.
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    1. Debbie Hopkins & Tim Schwanen, 2018. "Automated Mobility Transitions: Governing Processes in the UK," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-19, March.
    2. Legacy, Crystal & Stone, John, 2019. "Consensus planning in transport: The case of Vancouver’s transportation plebiscite," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 295-305.

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