Howarth, David and Griggs, Steven (2020) Two images of Nantes as a ‘Green Model’ of Urban Planning and Governance: The ‘Collaborative City’ Versus the ‘Slow City’. Town Planning Review, 91 (4). pp. 415-436. DOI https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.24 (In Press)
Howarth, David and Griggs, Steven (2020) Two images of Nantes as a ‘Green Model’ of Urban Planning and Governance: The ‘Collaborative City’ Versus the ‘Slow City’. Town Planning Review, 91 (4). pp. 415-436. DOI https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.24 (In Press)
Howarth, David and Griggs, Steven (2020) Two images of Nantes as a ‘Green Model’ of Urban Planning and Governance: The ‘Collaborative City’ Versus the ‘Slow City’. Town Planning Review, 91 (4). pp. 415-436. DOI https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.24 (In Press)
Abstract
This article examines how the city of Nantes, European Green Capital in 2013, came to promote plans for a new international airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Deploying poststructuralist discourse theory, it analyses how the highly politicised struggle against the airport reveals the limits of the Nantes model of urban sustainability and collaboration, giving rise to a counter model, which we provisionally characterise as the ‘slow city’. While the struggle against the airport can be understood as a rural social movement, we show how its ideals and logics have been progressively displaced to Nantes itself, disclosing new images and possibilities of urban governance.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2020 16:23 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 14:11 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/27125 |
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Filename: Town Planning Review Griggs and Howarth Two Images of Nantes version accepted for publication 11 March 2020.pdf