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Conflictive sustainability landscapes: the neoliberal quagmire of urban environmental planning in Buenos Aires
This article examines a local, state-led attempt in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to conceptualise and implement a programme resembling priorities in recent scholarship on sustainable development that integrates a justice imperative, which encompasses environmental, sociopolitical, and economic concerns. In a context of transnationally circulating paradigms where the discourse on sustainable development has become hegemonic and coupled with neoliberal orientations in policy, the effort to enact the Urban Environmental Plan in Buenos Aires faces challenges of prioritisation among conflicting goals. The focus is on how planning revolves around three neoliberal keywords implicated in sustainable development – sustainability, participation, and competitiveness – and the way these lead to the projection of incompatible material-symbolic landscapes, as examined in the redevelopmental site of Puerto Madero, a focal node of the Urban Environmental Plan in the Argentine capital where many of its projects converge.
Conflictive sustainability landscapes: the neoliberal quagmire of urban environmental planning in Buenos Aires
This article examines a local, state-led attempt in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to conceptualise and implement a programme resembling priorities in recent scholarship on sustainable development that integrates a justice imperative, which encompasses environmental, sociopolitical, and economic concerns. In a context of transnationally circulating paradigms where the discourse on sustainable development has become hegemonic and coupled with neoliberal orientations in policy, the effort to enact the Urban Environmental Plan in Buenos Aires faces challenges of prioritisation among conflicting goals. The focus is on how planning revolves around three neoliberal keywords implicated in sustainable development – sustainability, participation, and competitiveness – and the way these lead to the projection of incompatible material-symbolic landscapes, as examined in the redevelopmental site of Puerto Madero, a focal node of the Urban Environmental Plan in the Argentine capital where many of its projects converge.
Conflictive sustainability landscapes: the neoliberal quagmire of urban environmental planning in Buenos Aires
Centner, Ryan (author)
Local Environment ; 14 ; 173-192
2009-02-01
20 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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