2005
DOI: 10.1080/00420980500150730
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Abstract: This paper addresses the ways in which urban regions are represented in contemporary urban policies. In doing so, it critically examines how urban trends are reflected in diverse notions of 'cityness' in contemporary policy discourses about spatiality and territoriality. Through a detailed case study of the use and construction of the word 'city' in a range of urban governance contexts in Newcastle upon Tyne, this paper analyses the political work done by diverse representations and invocations of 'cityness' i… Show more

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“…In aggregate this generalizes "the urban" in ways that echo older metanarratives of place like "the modern" or "the global" (Brenner & Schmid, 2014). Such attempts at defining city identity likewise evacuate its meaning, ontologically flattening "the word 'city', and concepts of 'cityness' [into] merely a sort of automatic reference in contemporary, entrepreneurial and neo-liberal policy discourses" (Vigar, Graham, & Healey, 2005, p. 1406). …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 91%
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“…In aggregate this generalizes "the urban" in ways that echo older metanarratives of place like "the modern" or "the global" (Brenner & Schmid, 2014). Such attempts at defining city identity likewise evacuate its meaning, ontologically flattening "the word 'city', and concepts of 'cityness' [into] merely a sort of automatic reference in contemporary, entrepreneurial and neo-liberal policy discourses" (Vigar, Graham, & Healey, 2005, p. 1406). …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…Thus the word "city", and concepts of "cityness", become merely a sort of automatic referent in contemporary, entrepreneurial and neo-liberal policy discourses. (Vigar et al, 2005(Vigar et al, , p. 1406 Thus references to the city or the urban are conceptually hollowed out and geographically overextended. As Brenner has repeatedly lamented in recent critiques of loose references to the urban, "in the early twenty-first century, the urban appears to have become a quintessential floating signifier: devoid of any clear definitional parameters, morphological coherence, or cartographic fixity, it is used to reference a seemingly boundless range of contemporary sociospatial conditions" (Brenner, 2013, p. 90).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…From a 'scientific' 'technique' for professional experts to 'administer' physical space in 'balanced' development, planning became a sphere of communicative action (influenced by Habermas 1984Habermas ], 1987) where planners as 'critical friends' (Forester 1989) negotiated between business coalitions, corporate interests, local communities and civil society organizations. As Vigar, Graham, andHealey (2005, 1408) suggest, there is an important link here between releasing the capacity to imagine the city in multiple ways in urban policy and planning, and the search for more collaborative ways of expressing concepts of cityness in spatial strategies, through the exploration of local contingencies, their meanings and consequences.…”
Section: Relational Perspectives On Strategic Spatial Planningmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The construction of the 'symbolic markers' and 'cityness' necessary to strategically leverage regional infrastructures requires negotiating the often conflicting overarching interests of the urban landscape and the interests of local communities. But symbolic reconstruction, he suggests, can shift established spatial imaginaries and social norms in the urban periphery to concretely "[transform] the past into a new future" -if conducted with appropriate spatial and cultural sensitivity (ibid., page 2032; see Vigar et al, 2005). …”
Section: Infrastructure In-betweenness and The Evolving Metropolitamentioning
confidence: 99%