Spatiality and Growth Discourse: The Restructuring of America’s Rust Belt Cities

Wilson, David; Wouters, Jared

doi:10.1111/1467-9906.t01-1-00002

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“…Cleveland qua Cleveland (Krumholz, 1982;Keating, 1996;Warf and Holly, 1997;Chakalis et al, 2002;Wilson and Wouters, 2003;Hirt, 2005;Keating et al, 2005;Lowe, 2008). We draw upon this illuminating and important work.…”

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“…Despite the protestations of the city's growth coalition -involving elected officials, senior figures in the local media, the Greater Cleveland Partnership (civic and business leaders), and others -and its attempts to re-make and re-brand the city's image (Wilson and Wouters 2003), many of these features of the 1970s economic and social landscape remain largely unchanged. Thus so do the challenges facing the variety of public and public-private agencies overseeing the city's future development, and in particular, how to manage 'the IUF use of Cleveland, Ohio's, fourteen mile lakefront on Lake Erie' (Keating et al, 2005, p. 129).…”

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Relational Comparisons: The Assembling of Cleveland's Waterfront Plan

Cook

Ward

2012

Urban Geography

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This paper uses the ongoing attempts to redevelop the Cleveland waterfront to reveal the relational comparative geographies that are present in a number of contemporary urban revalorization strategies. It draws on archival papers, semistructured interviews, and the local grey literature to make three contributions to the existing urban-global studies literature. First, the paper argues that many contemporary waterfront and other similar redevelopment schemes are inherently comparative, with a significant amount of seemingly territorial politics and urban policy making characterized by actors' engagements with places elsewhere. Second, it shows that the framing of urban policy through relational comparisons is an established practice in many cities and that current redevelopment plans should be understood as informed by previous rounds of relational and territorial policy making. Third, it points to the importance of consultants in the current era -as examples of actors of transference -in shaping not only redevelopment plans but also the framing of the city in relation to other cities. ---No one public improvement is more important to the City of Cleveland than the development of her lake front in accordance with the best possible plan (Hopkins, 1927, p. 21) What we do with our great assets … will reshape Cleveland for decades to come (Jackson, 2010, quoted in Breckenridge, 2010 2 IUFThe regeneration of urban waterfronts is one of the key urban design and planning stories of the late twentieth century (Dovey, 2005, p. 9)

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Relational Comparisons: The Assembling of Cleveland's Waterfront Plan

Cook

Ward

2012

Urban Geography

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“…Fraser et al 2003;Martin, McCann, and Purcell 2003;McCann 2003). State institutions, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations all engage in a range of spatial politics through which they attempt to influence urban change and decision-making processes (McCann 1999(McCann , 2001aPurcell 2001;Wilson and Wouters 2003). For instance, Raco (2000) and J.…”

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Beyond Cooptation or Resistance: Urban Spatial Politics, Community Organizations, and GIS-Based Spatial Narratives

Elwood

2006

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

179

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The roles, relationships, and strategies of state and civil society institutions in urban planning, problem solving, and service delivery are in flux. In trying to understand how these changes affect community organizations, grassroots groups, and local-level institutions of civil society, existing research has tended to conceptualize these roles through a series of oppositional dialectics, such as cooptation or resistance. This article shows instead that community organizations shift their technological, institutional, and spatial approaches to urban planning and problem solving in creative and multifaceted ways. They produce a variety of spatial narratives to advance their agendas by strategically enacting multiple roles vis-à-vis a diverse set of actors and institutions. Information technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) can play a central role in this approach. Community organizations apply their own interpretive frameworks to GIS-based maps and images to produce spatial narratives of local needs, conditions, and assets that may be adapted to the diverse roles and relationships they negotiate in urban spatial politics. These arguments are developed from ethnographic research carried out with two inner-city Chicago community organizations pursuing a range of neighborhood improvement activities.

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“…It is quite common for rust belt cities to seek tertiary industries, such as growth coalitions promoting gentrification in Cleveland or St. Louis (Schilling & Logan, 2008;The Economist, Jul. 11, 2015;Wilson, 2007;Wilson & Wouters, 2003), or upgrading their manufacture with introduction of new technology, such as the biomedical research and robot engineering industry in Pittsburgh (Biggs, Feb. 2015;Greenblat, Nov. 2014;Piiparinen, Russell, & Post, 2015;Rotstein, Oct. 2013;Thrush, Feb. 2014). However, not all such efforts are rewarded.…”

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Harbin: A rust belt city revival from its strategic position

Xie

Yang

Cai

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Cities

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Rust belt cities are a special but important phenomenon in the world's industrialization landscape and city development trajectory. This profile analyses the struggling process and revitalization initiatives of Harbin, which was the first city established after the liberation of China, featuring the largest land area and highest latitude among all Chinese cities. The remarkable history of urban and industrial development once made Harbin the cradle of manufacturing in China, strongly supported by national government with concentration of SOEs. The city however has been suffering during the transition to a market economy. Its transition is painfully challenged by the strong socialist legacies of SOEs. This paper emphasizes that the new initiatives of Harbin, based on local endowments, cold climate condition and geolocation, demonstrate great potential for successful revitalization. Such strategic choices provide experiences and alternatives for other rust belt cities.

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Spatiality and Growth Discourse: The Restructuring of America’s Rust Belt Cities

Cited by 49 publications

References 18 publications

Relational Comparisons: The Assembling of Cleveland's Waterfront Plan

Relational Comparisons: The Assembling of Cleveland's Waterfront Plan

Beyond Cooptation or Resistance: Urban Spatial Politics, Community Organizations, and GIS-Based Spatial Narratives

Harbin: A rust belt city revival from its strategic position

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