"Just" urban governance in neoliberal policy - an evaluation of sustainable redevelopment in Amsterdam and Liverpool
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2024-08-30
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The integration of ‘justice’ in the planning process for municipalities has long been a central theme. Although the definition and qualification are not standardized, leading to many approaches and widely varied results. This study seeks to address what the actualized results of redevelopment are in the context of justice through two case studies: Kolenkitbuurt, Amsterdam and Granby Four Streets, Liverpool. This is done though an evaluation of how principles of justice are actualized in redevelopments marketed as sustainable, given the conditions of neoliberal urban policy. The principles are divided into three general categories of justice – distributive, procedural, social – and subdivided into several domains centered on the themes of population change, housing affordability, and policy structure. Though Kolenkitbuurt has domains of significant socio-spatial improvement, namely income and employment, the results suggest that a bottom-up approach, as demonstrated in Granby Four Streets, not only provides a stronger foundation for justice but also have more sustained results. The study findings align with previous literature on the relationship of justice with community participation but go further in defining justice in the context of redevelopment and arguing the hypocritical nature of sustainable redevelopment within top-down neoliberal approaches.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen