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Peripheralization through Planning: The Case of a Golf Resort Proposal in Northern Ireland

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Policy processes such as planning play a key role in framing spaces and places through debate and decision-making, and in this way contribute to the construction of regions and places as central or peripheral. In this chapter I examine this process of peripheralization through planning in relation to a proposal for a golf resort in a rural area of Northern Ireland. Through the case, I show how peripheralization serves as a frame for decision-making in planning, and how peripheralization can contribute to legitimizing development.

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  1. Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany

    Thilo Lang , Wladimir Sgibnev  & Kornelia Ehrlich ,  & 

  2. University of Jena, Germany

    Sebastian Henn

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Carter, H. (2015). Peripheralization through Planning: The Case of a Golf Resort Proposal in Northern Ireland. In: Lang, T., Henn, S., Sgibnev, W., Ehrlich, K. (eds) Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization. New Geographies of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415080_6

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