Ferm, J;
Freire Trigo, S;
Moore-Cherry, N;
(2022)
Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city.
Regional Studies
, 56
(3)
pp. 394-405.
10.1080/00343404.2021.1902976.
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Abstract
The concentration of economic growth into large metropolises is widely documented across Europe. Yet, planning of this growth at the strategic metropolitan scale shows significant variation. This paper documents the evolution of Opportunity Areas within Greater London. Through statistical and documentary analysis, and participant observation, we reveal how they have been repurposed from a tool employed to facilitate brownfield regeneration to one that sustains growth through brokering relationships, enhancing land value and capturing it. The paper argues that the cumulative impact of these ‘soft spaces’ of planning represents a fundamental change in the nature of strategic planning for city-regions.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Documenting the ‘soft spaces’ of London planning: Opportunity Areas as institutional fix in a growth-oriented city |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00343404.2021.1902976 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1902976 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way |
| Keywords: | spatial planning; metropolitanization; growth; inequality; city-regional governance; Opportunity Areas |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126839 |
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