Technologies of Mobilising Consensus: The Politics of Producing Affordable Housing Plans for the London Legacy Development Corporation’s Planning Boundary

Cecil Sagoe

Planning Theory & Practice, 2018, vol. 19, issue 3, 327-344

Abstract: Powerful arguments have emerged that English planning is currently characterised by technologies of governing that generate consensus over top-down neoliberal plans. For post-politics scholars, this dynamic has been conceptualised as post-politics. Using the case of affordable housing planning within the London Legacy Development Corporation, I explore these two perspectives. I find that affordable housing planning within the London Legacy Development Corporation has indeed been shaped by techniques of governing which aim to generate consensus over this Corporation’s affordable housing plans. However, drawing from a power-based understanding of politics, I argue that these efforts represent political techniques of governing.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2018.1478118

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