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Political Aspects of Social Justice and Physical Planning in an Abstract City
Author(s) -
Papageorgiou G. J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
geographical analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1538-4632
pISSN - 0016-7363
DOI - 10.1111/j.1538-4632.1978.tb00665.x
Subject(s) - consistency (knowledge bases) , politics , welfare , economic justice , distribution (mathematics) , social welfare , urban politics , sociology , political science , political economy , public economics , economics , law , mathematical analysis , geometry , mathematics
This essay examines the issue of consistency between certain short‐run effects of urban policy and the corresponding incidence of policy. Short‐run effects are politically important in democracies because they determine popular support. Incidence, on the other hand, is socially important because it defines the level of welfare and its distribution among citizens. It is seen that the two are not necessarily consistent. Inconsistencies arise within both the social and the spatial realms of urban policy. Such inconsistencies depend upon individual preferences, urban morphology, urban technology, and upon the structure of society itself.