Shopping malls and neoliberal trends in Southern European cities: Post-metropolitan challenges for urban planning policy

Whilst shopping malls have been explored at length by critical urban studies, there has been little exploration of their role in restructuring the practice of urban and spatial planning. This article uses the shopping mall as an object of study in the light of the neoliberal trends and post-metropolisation in Southern Europe, with the aim of exploring challenges for urban governance and planning practice and with a focus on the role of the ongoing economic crisis. A threefold exploratory framework – the ‘lost-in-time scenario’, the ‘messianic mall model’ and the ‘(im)mature planning explanation’ – is used to make sense of the local versions of shopping mall development in Lisbon (Portugal) and Palermo (Southern Italy). According to findings, we highlight the clash between the multi-scalar nature of shopping malls and the dominance of the municipal scale in regulatory planning frameworks, and the risk that shopping mall development (at least in Southern Europe) may replicate uneven development patterns, reproducing the pre-conditions of the crisis without helping to overcome it.

The Strategic Planning of EU Military Operations - The Case of EUFOR TCHAD / RCA. IES WORKING PAPER 5/2008

On 28 January 2008 the European Union launched the military operation EUFOR in Chad and the Central African Republic. Its mandate was to contribute to the security of the civilian population, the numerous refugees from neighboring Darfur and the local presence of the United Nations. This paper describes and analyses the planning process of this operation at the political-strategic and military-strategic levels with the aim of understanding how the military instrument was intended to generate the desired political effects. The paper argues that, from a military perspective, the EUFOR operation is based on the concept of humanitarian deterrence: the threat of military force is used to discourage potential spoilers from targeting the civilian population. As with any military operation, the planning of EUFOR was plagued by various elements of friction. At least some of this friction seems to flow from the mismatch in expectations between the political-strategic and military-strategic levels. The various political and military-technical constraints within which the operation was planned resulted in an operational posture that is less decisive than what the political ambitions would have suggested.

Local impact of foreign trade; a study in methods of local economic accounting, a Special Project Committee statement and a staff report

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Onsite wastewater disposal alternatives, Federal, State, and local involvement.

Mode of access: Internet.

Joint development and value capture in Los Angeles : local policy formulation /

"DOT-I-83-23."

Clean water and the land ; local government's role.

Prepared by American Society of Planning Officials under contract no. 68-01-1969.

Local community fact book, 1938 ....

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Local drug abuse : trends, patterns and issues /

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Transit capital planning in the San Francisco Bay Area /

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Short-range transit planning.

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Viewpoints of local school board presidents : educational problems, achievements, and challenges /

WI docs. no.: Ed.3/2:I 5/1978/6/6

The local housing authority and the architect,

On cover: A working relationship in planning a public housing program and in designing a public housing project.

Organizing a Chamber of Commerce : a "how to" manual for communities planning to organize a Chamber of Commerce : organization structure, sample bylaws.

"March 1962."

A long range plan for local law enforcement training in Illinois.

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A summary of planning activities in Illinois by county.

Mode of access: Internet.