Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City

PART I: SETTING THE CONTEXT Introduction; Andrew MacLaran 1. Neoliberalism: The Rise of a Bad Idea; Andrew MacLaran and Sinéad Kelly 2. Irish Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Urban Policy; Andrew MacLaran and Sinéad Kelly 3. Light-Touch Regulation: The Rise and Fall of the Irish Banking Sector; Sinéad Kelly 4. The Political Economy of Legislative Change: Neoliberalising Planning Legislation; Enda Murphy, Linda Fox-Rogers and Berna Grist 5. The Changing Ideology and Operation of Planning in Dublin; Andrew MacLaran and Niall McCrory PART II: THE PROPERTY BOOM AND ITS LEGACY Introduction; Andrew MacLaran 6. Ready Money: Over-Development in the Offices Sector; Andrew MacLaran 7. Ready Money: Residential Over-Development and its Consequences; Brendan Williams and Declan Redmond 8. The Financialisation of Irish Homeownership and the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis; Dáithí Downey 9. Bailing out the Banks: the Role of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA); Brendan Williams PART III: RESHAPING URBAN POLICY AND RESHAPING THE CITY Introduction; Andrew MacLaran 10. Actually-Existing Neoliberalism: Public-Private Partnerships in Public Service and Infrastructure Provision in Ireland; Rory Hearne 11. Taking Liberties: Gentrification as Neoliberal Urban Policy in Dublin; Sinéad Kelly 12. Neoliberalising the City 'Creative-Class' Style; Philip Lawton, Enda Murphy and Declan Redmond 13. Neoliberal 'Regeneration' and the Myth of Community Participation; Paula Brudell and Katia Attuyer 14. The Collapse of PPPs: Prospects for Social Housing Regeneration After the Crash; Rory Hearne and Declan Redmond 15. The Role of Private Consultancies in Neoliberal Urban Regeneration; Paula Brudell PART IV: CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS Introduction; Andrew MacLaran 16. Contested Urban Environments: Community Engagement and Struggle in Central Dublin; Michael Punch 17. Neoliberal Urban Policy and Challenging the Ideological Straightjacket; Andrew MacLaran and Sinéad Kelly