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In Ireland, as elsewhere in the developed world, municipal centres are adopting entrepreneurial practices,such as place promotion, flagship projects, boosterism, and urban regeneration projects, in order to achievecompetitive advantage on the international and global stage. These practices are associated with neweconomic and social policies that coincide with a shift towards new urban politics. In 1986 the Irish governmentadopted a new business-friendly, macro-economic strategy and associated urban policies to achieveurban renaissance in the capital city, Dublin. The emergence of Dublin as an 'entrepreneurial city' is illustratedhere by investigating the establishment and subsequent history of one such flagship project as a markerfor emerging entrepreneurial practices in Dublin. The article focuses upon the UDC's impacts on subsequentchanges in urban regeneration policy. Urban regeneration strategy in Dublin has evolved throughcounter-reactions to the initial UDC/UDP model of regeneration and in response to the changing dynamicsof Irish politics. ; Este artículo analiza el resurgir de Dublín como «ciudad empresarial» tomando como punto departida la formación e historia sucesiva de un proyecto bandera como símbolo para la emergencia de prácticasempresariales. Emulando experiencias similares llevadas a cabo en América y en el Reino Unido, la AdministraciónCentral puenteó a la Autoridad Municipal de Dublín creando un organismo especial de urbanismo,la Urban Development Corporation, (UDC), o Corporación de Urbanismo, para llevar a cabo el proyecto.Esta Corporación tenía como fin, o único proyecto urbanístico (Urban Development Project, UDP) la tareade renovar una zona inactiva y obsoleta del Área Portuaria de Dublín, Dublin Docklands, transformándoloen un Centro Internacional de Servicios Financieros. Este artículo se centra en el impacto de la Corporaciónde Urbanismo (UDC) sobre cambios posteriores en la política de regeneración urbana.

This paper explores questions of ownership of and receptivity to research-based evidence and, in combination with often competing values, their effect on collaborative evidence-informed policy making (EIPM). We propose that these issues generate a 'dynamo' of push–pull factors for policy makers, researchers and research managers. Through the process of producing and managing new knowledge in collaborative EIPM efforts, these factors shape different 'realities'. We argue that these help to prevent, break, distort or facilitate the conceptual cycle of EIPM. The paper sets out ideas for mapping ownership, receptivity and values and their dynamic effects, drawn from actor network theory, complexity theory and the Competing Values Framework. In conclusion, it suggests that engagement with and development of policy making as a form of emergent ordering may provide ways for more effective EIPM.

In Ireland, as elsewhere in the developed world, municipal centres are adopting entrepreneurial practices,such as place promotion, flagship projects, boosterism, and urban regeneration projects, in order to achievecompetitive advantage on the international and global stage. These practices are associated with neweconomic and social policies that coincide with a shift towards new urban politics. In 1986 the Irish governmentadopted a new business-friendly, macro-economic strategy and associated urban policies to achieveurban renaissance in the capital city, Dublin. The emergence of Dublin as an 'entrepreneurial city' is illustratedhere by investigating the establishment and subsequent history of one such flagship project as a markerfor emerging entrepreneurial practices in Dublin. The article focuses upon the UDC's impacts on subsequentchanges in urban regeneration policy. Urban regeneration strategy in Dublin has evolved throughcounter-reactions to the initial UDC/UDP model of regeneration and in response to the changing dynamicsof Irish politics. ; Este artículo analiza el resurgir de Dublín como «ciudad empresarial» tomando como punto departida la formación e historia sucesiva de un proyecto bandera como símbolo para la emergencia de prácticasempresariales. Emulando experiencias similares llevadas a cabo en América y en el Reino Unido, la AdministraciónCentral puenteó a la Autoridad Municipal de Dublín creando un organismo especial de urbanismo,la Urban Development Corporation, (UDC), o Corporación de Urbanismo, para llevar a cabo el proyecto.Esta Corporación tenía como fin, o único proyecto urbanístico (Urban Development Project, UDP) la tareade renovar una zona inactiva y obsoleta del Área Portuaria de Dublín, Dublin Docklands, transformándoloen un Centro Internacional de Servicios Financieros. Este artículo se centra en el impacto de la Corporaciónde Urbanismo (UDC) sobre cambios posteriores en la política de regeneración urbana.

Thinking Geographically offers students and faculty alike an elegant, concise, and thorough overview of contemporary theoretical concerns in geography. Easily accessible to those unfamiliar with social theory, this volume ""pushes the envelope"" of understanding by sketching the contours of post-structuralist spatial thought, including such critical emerging topics as geographies of text, the body, money, and globalisation. Brief biographies of influential theorists demonstrate how ideas are embodied and personified. This volume is highly useful for courses in human geography, the history and

This paper analyses some of the activities of a community development group connected to a very poor neighbourhood in Dublin, Ireland within the context of anti-poverty discourses and types of targeted funding generated by the European Union. Community development groups and discourses are saturated with terms such as the 'social market', 'inclusion' and 'community' that are an interesting combination of progressive politics and concepts recognizably connected to social science disciplines like Anthropology and Human Geography. In this essay, the authors examine a 'community' response to the so-called 'horse protest' in Dublin, a response in large part funded by EU mechanisms geared to combating 'social exclusion'. They also trace back some of the connections between the institutional actors in this community and EU policies and funding mechanisms. Finally, they examine the trajectory of the Republic of Ireland, especially its experience of a booming economy, that has influenced perceptions of, and reactions to, problems in this neighbourhood. This work represents an attempt to merge ethnographic data and policy analysis within one textual frame, and in particular it represents the authors' attempt to understand how certain discursive sign-posts like 'social exclusion' are given content as concrete social-historical processes.