Economic neoliberalism promises social efficiency with self-interested participants and free competition. This doctrine is challenged by the extensive production of wasteful goods and services in the contemporary West. By studying three types of wasteful production-conspicuous goods, conspicuous...

Purpose The purpose of this paper we present a case study where the Swedish planning support system Citylab is applied to a Chinese case in Changzhou's Tianning District. Design/methodology/approach China's planning system is a vertical system based on policy development on the national level,...