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Political dilemmas in peripheral development: investment, regulation, and interventions in metropolitan Amsterdam

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  • Federico Savini

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Today's metropolis is polycentric. Core city borders are undergoing major transformations and the urban periphery is becoming an attractive area for investment as well as an experimental ground for planning innovation. Yet, its development entails deep political tension. This paper starts from the assumption that the role of political dynamics and political agendas of elected groups is under-investigated in today's spatial planning research, even though they are crucial in enabling innovation in times of economic change. This paper contributes to this field of research in two ways: first, it conceptualizes the political challenges for planning into three major dilemmas: over approaches to spatial investment, over regulation, and over spatial interventions in the periphery. The paper then empirically demonstrates that to address these tensions in spatial planning there is a need to consider more fundamental political issues over future city-regional agendas. Examining recent transformation efforts in Amsterdam's northwestern areas, where industrial, housing, and environmental change all conflict, the paper shows that these dilemmas are attached to broader political questions over growth strategies, the meaning of regulation, and the role of governments in land management.

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  • Federico Savini, 2013. "Political dilemmas in peripheral development: investment, regulation, and interventions in metropolitan Amsterdam," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(3), pages 333-348, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:14:y:2013:i:3:p:333-348
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2013.820340
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    1. Federico Savini & Mendel Giezen, 2020. "Responsibility as a field: The circular economy of water, waste, and energy," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 38(5), pages 866-884, August.
    2. Federico Cuomo & Stefania Ravazzi & Federico Savini & Luca Bertolini, 2020. "Transformative Urban Living Labs: Towards a Circular Economy in Amsterdam and Turin," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-19, September.
    3. Jean-Paul D Addie, 2016. "On the road to the in-between city: Excavating peripheral urbanisation in Chicago’s ‘Crosstown Corridor’," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(5), pages 825-843, May.

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