Spatial rationalities: order, environment, evolution and government

Huxley, Margo

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“…The claims made in this paper about the nature and role of the affordable studio move beyond an analysis of creative spaces that assumes, by the nature of their location or material makeup (Drake, 2003), that they already contain a capacity to 'be creative' or otherwise offer inspiration to those working in, or around, them. As Huxley (2007Huxley ( , 2006 and others have suggested, the ability for space to play roles in government is not always an a priori, but one that has historically linked to complex sets of relationship between rationales and techniques of governing. This analysis of the work of affordable studio providers has therefore not taken for granted the notion that an artist's workspace as a de facto creative environment that supports the production of cultural work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Huxley (2007) argues that spaces and environments are not "simply delineated or arranged for purposes of discipline or surveillance, visibility or management" (Huxley, 2007 p. 195, see also Huxley, 2006, Osborne, 2004, Osborne and Rose, 1999 but that instead, the idea that spaces are generative of, or can promote, certain social behaviours is also part of the process of imagining and materialising organisational aims. The process by which this occurs within affordable studio providers can be seen to comprise three elements: cultural-historical readings of the nature of the artist's studio, an economic-technical process of materialisation, and a repurposing of how artistic workspaces can support community engagement.…”

Section: Making Materials the Affordable Studiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Consequently, programmes of governing that foreground creativity and economic or cultural benefit will likely see spatial expressions of those values (Huxley, 2006).…”

Section: Governing Through Spacementioning

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The Promise of the Affordable Artist's Studio: Governing Creative Spaces in London

Moreton

2013

Environ Plan A

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The role of artists' organisations in populating and popularising postindustrial urban areas is well documented. However, what are less apparent are analyses of how spaces of artistic production are organised and governed in these areas. This paper explores, via an analysis of organisational documents and practices, the techniques used by London-based affordable studio providers to imagine, calculate, and make material low-cost workspace for artists. The argument made is that the negotiation of competing agendas around the production of cultural, economic, and social benefit by affordable studio providers has led to the emergence of a specific form of affordable studio. This analysis will thus show how configurations of creative space emerge from mundane techniques of measurement and governance.

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The Promise of the Affordable Artist's Studio: Governing Creative Spaces in London

Moreton

2013

Environ Plan A

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“…By focusing on how diffuse forms of control inform popular mentalities (Pløger, 2008) and by expanding the concept of government beyond the classically conceived 'State', it advances a more subtle understanding of how a variety of influences emanating from an array of sources shape individual and communal behaviour (Certomà, 2015;Huxley, 2006). Nonetheless, to date such work remains largely focused on the analytics of power, rather than on the ethical questions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Morality, power and the planning subject

Lennon

Fox-Rogers

2016

Planning Theory

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Ethical issues are at the heart of planning. Thus, planning theory has long displayed an interest in debating both the ethical justification for planning and how the activity of planning can be rendered more ethically sensitive. However, comparatively little attention has been shown to how the very constitution of the planner as a 'moral subject' may be ethically problematic for planning practice. This paper addresses this lacuna through an engagement with the philosophy of Michel Foucault. In contrast to how his work is normally applied, this paper accords with Foucault's own direction that his later examination of ethics be used as a lens through which to read his earlier analysis of power and knowledge. Accordingly, the paper first outlines Foucault's innovative reinterpretation of how power and knowledge operate in society before setting this within his novel re-conception of ethics. This theoretical exposition is then employed to interpret material drawn from in-depth qualitative interviews with twenty planning officers working in a range of different contexts.The paper subsequently employs Foucault's ethically informed reading of power and knowledge to identify ethical issues arising from the approaches used by practitioners to justify their planning activities. The paper concludes by suggesting how such issues can be resolved.

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“…Applying these concepts in our context allows an analysis of the work and self-conception of the BIDs as part of a multifaceted interplay of power relations structuring the way in which urban space and its appropriate uses and users are imagined and governed. The approach may help us to understand the connections between the contingent exercise of power in local settings -where the formal structures and the activities of BIDs have achieved a great deal of variation (see Hochleutner, 2003: 279) and where actors often just seem to act upon what they perceive as concrete problems without further reflecting on the 'powerful definitions of truth about best cities' (McCann, 2008: 897) that their practices produceand the overarching rationalities of governing that are being (re)configured here (Rose and Miller, 1992;Dean, 1999;Rose, 1999;Legg, 2005;Huxley, 2006). Special emphasis is put on the role of space as a catalytic element in this power/knowledge nexus.…”

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Spillover of the private city: BIDs as a pivot of social control in downtown Los Angeles

Marquardt

Füller

2012

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Our paper addresses the complex role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in current processes of inner-city restructuring and the function of BIDs in the implementation of new forms of social control in downtown areas. Our thesis is that, in the context of recent urban renaissance initiatives, BIDs are expanding their ‘clean and safe’ profile to be a much more comprehensive programme. Their goal is not only to produce safety and cleanliness in the urban environment but to influence the symbolic dimension of what the city is and for whom it is made. This implies indirect forms of governing the way in which the city is used, which go unnoticed if BIDs are identified solely as a tool to create ‘clean and safe’ public space. We will substantiate this claim with a case study on the current restructuring of downtown Los Angeles (L.A.). Since 1999, downtown L.A. has been profoundly ‘revitalized’ as a living and entertainment district for affluent residents. The nine BIDs covering the main parts of the downtown play an important role in making this gentrification happen by providing the appropriate context for restructuring. Beyond overt measures such as security forces or CCTV, the BIDs also have an important impact on the ‘geographical imagination’ (Harvey, 1973) of the city. The examples elucidate the anticipation of a broadening field of activity for BIDs, not only in securing an ‘urban renaissance’ but also in framing the way it is performed symbolically.

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Spatial rationalities: order, environment, evolution and government

Cited by 115 publications

References 6 publications

The Promise of the Affordable Artist's Studio: Governing Creative Spaces in London

The Promise of the Affordable Artist's Studio: Governing Creative Spaces in London

Morality, power and the planning subject

Spillover of the private city: BIDs as a pivot of social control in downtown Los Angeles

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