Roll Out Neoliberalism Analysis

Supportive ‘Roll Out’ Neoliberal Planning

In proposing what a “just city” should instead be, Fainstain (2010) criticized that the neoliberalism favours resources allocation for economic growth but at the cost of wider social benefits. Peck and Tickell (2002) were among the first as early as 1994 to foresee that deregulatory neoliberalism could not solve the problems Keynesian economics gave rise to and was not sustainable (Boyle et al, 2008). In the early 1990s when economic recessions hit, neoliberalism policies of Thatcher and Reagan encountered major economic downturn, as irrationalities and externalities of neoliberalism began to materialize (Peck and Tickell, 2002). Boyle et al (2008) recapitulated that “roll-back” neoliberalism aggravated
Neoliberalism diffused into broader ranges of policies and strategies. Due to its contingent nature, features of neoliberalism in different time and places are evolving and sometimes contradictory. In many cases, extension of planning functions accompanies with deregulation. Baeten (2012) explained that neoliberalisation of planning involves a multifaceted reorganizing of relations between the state and market. In so doing, the government incorporates market principles into planning. Allmendinger (2017) suggested that we can look at the two elements of neoliberalism as firstly a set of abstract theoretical ideologies of global dimensions and secondly a more real-world and on-the-ground set of local practices which have characteristics of hybridity, contingency and
As Harvey (1989) argued of urban entrepreneurialism, interurban competition has powerful disciplinary effects on planning. Peck and Tickell (2002) regarded neoliberalism instrumental in reflexive and entrepreneurial city governance with an inclination across urban cities to create signature cultural events, prestige corporate investments, public resources, and good jobs. They further observed that such entrepreneurial regimes of urban governance simultaneously springing up in diverse circumstances suggests that there is a systemic connection with neoliberalization as a macro process.

Peck and Tickell (2002) observed that as strategies which have been implemented overseas are imported and replicated locally, this shortens the time needed to contrive and carry out policies, which expedited and intensified the process of neoliberalization. However, duplicative reproduction of strategies gives rise to homogeneity, which denotes vulnerability to systemic crisis. They postulated that the very same routes through which neoliberalism inseminates may act as expressways for future crises of overaccumulation, deflation, and serial policy