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In: Environment and planning. C, Politics and space, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 3-4
ISSN: 2399-6552
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In: Environment and planning. C, Politics and space, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 3-4
ISSN: 2399-6552
In: Environment and planning. C, Politics and space, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 229-230
ISSN: 2399-6552
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 188-196
ISSN: 1468-2427
AbstractCity‐regionalism and livability are concepts that feature prominently in recent writings on urban politics and policy. Policy discussions have seen the two concepts fused together in such a way that regional competitiveness is generally understood to entail high levels of 'livability' while urban livability is increasingly discussed, measured and advocated at a city‐regional scale. It is, then, important to understand how these concepts work in tandem and to delineate the often‐elided politics of reproduction through which they operate. This paper begins by elaborating on the politically powerful fusion of city‐regionalist and urban livability discourses, using the example of Richard Florida's creative city argument. It then discusses the politics of city‐regionalism and livability through the case of Austin, Texas, a city that has framed its policy in terms of regionalism and livability but which is also characterized by marked income inequality and a neighborhood‐based political struggle over the city's future. The paper concludes by drawing lessons from the discussion and suggesting that the city‐regional livability agenda can best be understood as a geographically selective, strategic, and highly political project.
In: Journal of urban affairs, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 159-178
ISSN: 1467-9906
In: Geographies of Power, S. 61-84
This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing neoliberal restructuring, and grapples with profound questions and challenging policy considerations about diversity, equity, and justice. A stimulant to debate in any undergraduate urban studies classroom, this book will inspire a new generation of urban social scholars
In: Globalization and community series 17
In: Globalization and community, v. 17
"Mobile Urbanism" provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geographers reveal that cities are not isolated objects of study; rather, they are dynamic, global-local assemblages of policies, practices, and ideas. The essays in this volume argue for a theorizing of both urban policymaking and place-making that understands them as groups of territorial and relational geographies. It broadens our comprehension of agents of transference, reconceiving how policies are made mobile, and acknowledging the imp
In: Urban Planning, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 77-88
Questions of change and the future have become increasingly salient in Vancouver's Chinatown in the last decade, as gentrification proceeds apace. Various actors have used the neighbourhood's public spaces to express their visions of Chinatown's future. These claims are articulated through attempts to demonstrate and strengthen the vitality of Chinatown in the face of growing narratives of its putative decline and death. By engaging with the contemporary sociological literature on conviviality, where relatively "thin" versus more radical conceptualizations of conviviality are being debated, and putting it into conversation with both the geographical literature on the politics of public space and political theory discussions of agonism, we argue that the uses of public space must be analyzed without romanticizing conviviality or consensus in order to understand the productive possibilities of "political conviviality" and agonistic encounters. Our focus is the "Hot+Noisy Mahjong Socials" held in recent summers in an iconic plaza in Chinatown. These are organized by a community group that builds connections between mostly Chinese Canadian youth and largely Cantonese-speaking seniors. These groups espouse a goal of "place-keeping" in the context of planning trends toward "placemaking." Through this case, we consider how activists from marginalized communities build solidarities through agonistic "place-keeping" in the face of gentrification and threats of cultural erasure.
In: Space & polity, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 109-123
ISSN: 1470-1235
In: Space & polity, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 109
ISSN: 1356-2576
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 828-830
ISSN: 1468-2427
AbstractThe growing use of the notion of 'policy mobilities' to conceptualize how policy is made and moved across and among cities and urbanized regions has led to worthwhile insights, but has also encouraged some critiques. Many of these address certain dualisms that seem to undergird the policy mobilities approach. This essay engages with three of these apparent dualisms—success/failure, presence/absence and mobilities/immobilities—and argues that while they must be treated with care, they should not be dismissed or expunged a priori. Rather, we argue that there is utility in conceptualizing urban policy mobilities through relational dyads, rather than oppositional dualisms. If studies of policy mobilities, urban or otherwise, are to maintain their momentum, success, failure, presence, absence, mobilities and immobilities should be understood as being intertwined, mutually constituting and reinforcing elements of policymaking.
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 828-830
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: Political studies review, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 325-332
ISSN: 1478-9302
This is a short response to Benson and Jordan's 2011 article, 'What Have We Learned from Policy Transfer Research?' Its point of departure is their claim that 'policy transfer is a useful concept that transfers easily across different sub-disciplines and analytical contexts'. In reviewing a growing heterogeneous body of work on policy assemblages, mobilities and mutations, we argue that policy transfer research has already travelled well beyond political science, that it has been critiqued and modified along the way, and that its future is an interdisciplinary one; a future in which we invite political scientists to join.
In: Worlding Cities, S. 182-204