Urban development and land release policies in the city fringes are criticised because they often fail to achieve their objectives such as providing affordable housing for low to moderate-income groups as well as provision of infrastructure and transportation. From a Marxian point of view, urban development plans fail because of the inherent contradictions of capital, and consequently, maximisation of surplus-value becomes the main objectives of land supply policies. In this paper, I draw on the Lacanian concept of drive and use the homology between Marxian surplus-value and Lacanian surplus-enjoyment to explain how the market rationality of neoliberalism (late-capitalism) deflects the desired objectives of urban development plans (UDPs); that is, the desire to provide affordable housing and urban services and infrastructure instead facilitates speculative activities on land in the suburban areas of a metropolis, such as Perth, Western Australia. In particular, the paper focuses on the neoliberal intuitional and financial dimensions of UDPs. In conclusion, I suggest how planners may deal with the pressure of the lack in the hegemonic discourse of neoliberalism in order to avoid the stuckness of the logic of drive materialised in the operation of planning institutions.

人们批评城市边缘地区的城市发展和土地释放政策，因为它们常常无法实现其目标，例如为中低收入群体提供经济适用房以及提供基础设施和交通运输。从马克思的观点来看，城市发展计划由于资本的内在矛盾而失败，因此，剩余价值的最大化成为土地供应政策的主要目标。在本文中，我借鉴拉康主义的驱动力概念，并使用马克思剩余价值与拉康主义剩余享乐之间的同源性来解释新自由主义（晚期资本主义）的市场合理性如何偏离城市发展计划（UDP）的预期目标; 那是，提供可负担得起的住房，城市服务和基础设施的愿望反而促进了大都市郊区（例如西澳大利亚州珀斯）的土地上的投机活动。特别是，本文着重于UDP的新自由主义直觉和财务方面。最后，我建议规划者如何应对新自由主义霸权话语中缺乏的压力，以避免规划机构运作中实现的驱动逻辑的僵化。