‘Opening for business’? Neoliberalism and the cultural politics of modernising planning in Scotland

In this paper I explore how the culture of land-use planning in Scotland has been targeted as an object of modernising reform, exploring how ‘culture change’ initiatives played a prominent role in stabilising a new settlement around ‘open for business’ planning between 2006 and 2012, containing potential tensions between diverse goals to make planning more efficient, inclusive and integrative. This highlights the potentially significant role of governance cultures in containing tensions and securing consent to processes of state restructuring. I therefore argue that greater empirical attentiveness to the cultural micro-politics of state restructuring can improve understanding of complex, contemporary dynamics of change, and the contested role of the neoliberal hegemonic project in reshaping urban governance. I conclude by arguing that the continued power of neoliberal critiques of the inefficiency of land-use planning indicate a need to acknowledge and engage contemporary cultural battles over the purposes of planning and urban governance. 本文将探讨苏格兰的土地利用规划文化如何成为现代化改革的目标，并探讨“文化变革”举措 在2006-2012年间围绕“商业开放” 规划建立新定居点方面发挥的重要作用，包含使规划更加 高效、包容和一体的不同目标之间的潜在紧张关系。这凸显了治理文化在遏制紧张局势和确保 与国家重建进程步调一致方面发挥的潜在重要作用。因此，作者认为，在经验层面更多地关注 国家重建的文化微观政治，有助于更好地理解复杂的当代变革机制以及新自由主义霸权项目在 重塑城市治理中发挥的争议性作用。最后，文章指出，对土地利用规划之低效率的持续新自由 主义批判表明，有必要承认并参与当代关于规划和城市治理之目的的文化论战。