The emergence of ‘performative planning’: a case study of waterfront regeneration in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Sang-Ju Yu

International Planning Studies, 2020, vol. 25, issue 4, 409-426

Abstract: This paper examines the shifting planning logics and design principles presented in the emergence of ‘performative planning’ that frames the motivations and visions of recent megaprojects. I consider the emblematic landscape, persuasive imaginary and affective presence through which a regeneration megaproject manipulates public emotions as a tactic of performative planning. I suggest that performative planning is a constructed governing process through which prevalent affects are structured to justify subsequent policy decisions and actions. Based on a case study of ‘Asia New Bay Area’ project in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, this paper demonstrates that performative planning has increasingly underlined the shifting nature of spatial planning from rationality-based to emotion-orientated approaches. It also unfolds a major shift from crisis management to crisis adaptation, wherein public desires and emotions are now given significant consideration in both the policy agenda and the actual design of a regeneration megaproject.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2019.1627184

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