| Summary: | This dissertation explores the configuration of large-scale projects of renewal in Colombia esulting rom the mediation of agents' interests and institutional frameworks. The theoretical framework resents the debates and critiques of deal making in planning theory. I address the gaps in the literature by proposing the analytical framework I term "critical spatial planning".Critical spatial planning (CSP) encompasses three layers of interpretation. First, it is critical because -as critical urban theory does- CSP problematizes the impacts of the territorial circuits of capital and the pervading impacts of neo-liberal oriented governance. Second, it is spatial because CSP focuses on space as product, site, and mediator of social relations and a departure point tounderstand the built environment. Third, CSP refers to planning as an open arena of place makingthat involves mechanisms for (de) regulating space from grass roots initiatives, state institutions,private firms, their networks and its contestations.
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