Neoliberalism in Urban Planning of Queensland

Contents
Neoliberalism the context, definition, and explanation in 21st century world...........................3
The influence of Neo-liberalism in the urban planning of Queensland.....................................4
The critical analysis of the reading............................................................................................5
The links of Neoliberalism with the existing development model prevailing in the Queensland
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The impact of the missing link in the planning..........................................................................7
Bibliography...............................................................................................................................8

Neoliberalism the context, definition, and explanation in the 21st-century world
The socially and academically excepted definition of liberalism gives us an idea that it is a
social arrangement attained by the accommodating mindset of a society where they accept the
policies and practices to serve the interests of various cultures and demographics living under
the same social sphere (Cross, 2017). The definition of neoliberalism has its roots in the
same definition. In broad terms, we can also say that neoliberalism is a modified version of
the liberalism. In this version, social engineers accommodated socio-economic concerns of
the society in the mainframe of the thought processes of liberalism (Duman, 2014).
The scope of the traditional liberalism was confined to be an ideology for the societies during
the 20th century. However, the concepts working under the framework of neoliberalism also
deals with the formation of public policy and inclusion of the development models of the
society (Venugopal, 2015). The concept of neoliberalism explains the economic distribution
of common goods in society. The influence of Neo-liberalism received a sharp criticism
because many social experts thought that privatization of the community goods will present
an opportunity for corruption and it can create a monopoly like situation for certain players in
the coming future (Cotoi, 2015). At the turn of this century neo-liberalism came in as an
extension of liberalism, it was assumed that liberalism allowed individuals to think more
freely and neo-liberalism allowed them to act more freely because they shared the burden of
social service and community goods with the private sector, NGO's and other organizations.
The influence of these structured forces looking after various parts of administration and
social arrangements forced the city planning authorities to make them a stakeholder in the
process of urban planning.
It is a universal phenomenon, in order to understand it in a better way and check out its
dimensions in the evolution of the next phase of neo-liberalism we can study the case of