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.

Joint municipal/industrial land application and wastewater reuse system.

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Planning wastewater management facilities for small communities : draft /

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Planning water supply : cost-rate differentials and plumbing permits /

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Lawrence Avenue underflow sewer system : interim report, planning and construction /

"March 1980."

Resource recovery plant implementation : guides for municipal officials

157.1. Planning and overview.--157.2. Technologies.--157.3. Markets.--157.5. Procurement.--157.6. Accounting format.--157.7. Risks and contracts.

Municipal parks and playgrounds in Illinois. August, 1939.

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Modern city planning; its meaning and methods.

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City residential land development : studies in planning : competitive plans for subdividing a typical quarter section of land in the outskirts of Chicago /

[Arthur C. Comey awarded 2d prize.]

Resource recovery plant implementation : guides for municipal officials /

Includes footnotes.

Highway study [a research study of traffic patterns and highway needs for 1960 and 1980-85, Eugene-Springfield area] In cooperation with the Central Lane Planning Council and others. Donald N. Johnson, project director.

Fold. plan in pocket.

Abstract of the proceedings of the ... annual Illinois Planning Conference ...

At head of title: State of Illinois.

County & municipal labor force report, 1991-2000.

Geographic area includes Adams, Kane, Kankakee, Tazewell, Union, and Woodford Counties, and Addison, Maywood, Moline and Woodridge municipal areas in Illinois.

Drought planning for small community water systems /

"MTAC TR06-02"--Cover.

Lake County transportation study and comprehensive highway plan for coordinated urban and regional comprehensive transportation planning : revised prospectus /

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