PLANNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE EUROPE? - TU Berlin

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Pictures
List of Figures
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1 Introduction 1
1.1 In Search of a Sustainable Transport Policy for the New Europe 2
1.2 Transport Infrastructure Investments Illustrate Key Dilemmas of Planning 4
1.3 Situating the Study within the Existing Social Science Literature 6
1.4 Some Preliminary Remarks on the Research Design and the
Case Study Method 12
1.5 The Unit(s) of Analysis 14
1.6 Personal Motivations for Choosing European Transport Policy as an
Area of Inquiry 18
1.7 Initial Considerations: “Rhetoric vs. Reality” or “Realrationalität”? 20
1.8 From General Research Questions to an Inquiry Structured Around Six
Key Propositions 25
1.9 Methods and Data Sources Used 33
Part One: Theory-Building –
Five Discursive Frameworks for a “Sustainable Europe”
2 Transport, Development and Sustainability: First Approximations 40
2.1 Introduction 41
2.2 Transport and Economic Development 41
2.3 “Sustainable Development” 57
2.4 “Sustainable Transport” 66
2.5 Sustainable Development and Sustainable Transport:
Two Ill-Defined Concepts? 72
3 Introducing the Notion of Discursive Frameworks 73
3.1 Introduction: The Notion of a Dominant Discourse 74
3.2 From Three Definitions of Sustainability to Five Discursive Frameworks 77
3.3 Modernity and Modernization: Some (Meta-)Theoretical Considerations 79
3.4 The Notion of Discursive Frameworks 93
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