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Statecraft, Scalecraft and Urban Planning: A Comparative Study of Birmingham, UK, and Brisbane, Australia

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  • Simon Pemberton
  • Glen Searle

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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.

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  • Simon Pemberton & Glen Searle, 2016. "Statecraft, Scalecraft and Urban Planning: A Comparative Study of Birmingham, UK, and Brisbane, Australia," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 76-95, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:24:y:2016:i:1:p:76-95
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2015.1078297
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    1. Natalie Papanastasiou, 2017. "The practice of scalecraft: Scale, policy and the politics of the market in England’s academy schools," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(5), pages 1060-1079, May.
    2. Davina Cooper & Didi Herman, 2020. "Doing activism like a state: Progressive municipal government, Israel/Palestine and BDS," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 38(1), pages 40-59, February.
    3. Janice Morphet, 2017. "Rescaling the suburban: New directions in the relationship between governance and infrastructure," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 32(8), pages 803-817, December.

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