The un-equal playground: Developers and urban activists struggling for the right to the city

Domaradzka, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.01.013

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“…The proposed tool allows for a better understanding of people and places and, most importantly, the place-related needs and preferences among residents. By adopting those new measures in a planning phase, we hope that the risk of failed, mismatched investments within cultural heritage sites can be minimized [45]. In the long run, this approach could help to implement humancentered urban policies [46] and avoid the destruction of the genius loci of many cultural heritage sites.…”

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Intrinsic Value and Perceived Essentialism of Culture Heritage Sites as Tools for Planning Interventions

Roszczyńska-Kurasińska

Domaradzka

Wnuk

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Sustainability

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In order to remain alive and relevant, cultural heritage sites have to react and adapt to changing context in a coherent manner, i.e., in a way that is in line with the memory and identity of the place. The incoherent changes, i.e., the transformations that according to the local community do not agree with a character of a place, can be destructive for the long-term vitality of urban cultural heritage. In this study, we test which factors influence social acceptance of different alternations within the context of urban historical gardens that might, in turn, ensure the resilience of the place. Our study focuses on the intangible qualities of the place measured by intrinsic value, perceived essentialism and anti-essentialism as important predictors shaping the response to change. The correlational study was conducted using an online questionnaire designed to empirically grasp intangible qualities of cultural heritage sites. Five hundred twenty-nine responses were included in the analysis. The study shows that perceived historic value, inherent value (uniqueness and importance of the place) and (anti-)essentialist character of a place capture the differences between parks well and enables the finding of interventions that are coherent with a site’s genius loci. Measuring intangible qualities of urban gardens can help to design changes that find higher approval among local community members and users of the site. We discuss how the analysis of an intrinsic value and essentialism allows for planning better spatial interventions that align with the human-centered approach to urban development.

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Intrinsic Value and Perceived Essentialism of Culture Heritage Sites as Tools for Planning Interventions

Roszczyńska-Kurasińska

Domaradzka

Wnuk

et al. 2021

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“…Fourth, the theory of SAFs is predominantly based on Western social facts and theoretical research. Although it has been examined by empirical evidence from Western democracies such as the United States (Chen, 2018;Gast on, 2018;Pettinicchio, 2013) and Europe (Domaradzka, 2015(Domaradzka, , 2017(Domaradzka, , 2019Wijkstr€ om, 2016, 2019;Kauppinen et al, 2017), little is known about the applicability and transferability of this theory in a centralized context.…”

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Stability and change in strategic action fields: Municipal solid waste incineration in China, 1988–2020

Zhang

2020

Chinese Journal of Sociology

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The theory of strategic action fields (SAFs) is a perspective from which to better understand the emergence, stability, and change of the meso-level social order. However, the transferability of this theoretical perspective requires additional empirical evidence. Therefore, this study regards municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration in China as a SAF, in which various forces vie for the dominant position around the construction and operation of incineration plants. Given that all fields are embedded in a shifting social and cultural context, I analyze the interactions and competitions between incumbents and challengers. I then examine a series of consecutive events in the SAF, such as the emergence of the waste crisis, the development of MSW incineration, and consequential episodes of contention. I also investigate other factors that may affect the prospects for stability and change of the SAF, including actions of the state, influences of other related fields, and large-scale crises. By tracing the developmental trajectory of the SAF of MSW incineration, I discuss the applicability of the theory of SAFs to understanding an underexplored field in China.

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“…Hyde (2018) analyses the seemingly benevolent actions of developers in Toronto and Vancouver to show how they are ‘giving back to get ahead’. Relational work with, or for, the community became an explicit strategy in which developers incorporate – and often alter in doing so – community agendas into their strategies (Domaradzka, 2019). This work draws on literature that questions whether participatory approaches in urban governance can overcome the limitations of top-down planning (Allmendinger and Haughton, 2012; Brownill and Carpenter, 2009; Healey, 1998; Sagoe, 2018).…”

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Complexity and coordination in London’s Silvertown Quays: How real estate developers (re)centred themselves in the planning process

Brill

2019

Environ Plan A

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This paper contributes to existing research on the relational work of real estate developers to demonstrate how internal corporate complexities create opaqueness in governance settings and limit potential community engagement. This work is particularly pertinent at a time when there is renewed interest in the private sector, yet very little analysis that begins from the perspective of the developer. Drawing on the example of London’s Silvertown, this paper shows how the strategies of development organizations evident in existing research, including their work with the public sector, communities and experts, require multiple levels of internal coordination. I argue that because of these sub-centres of power, developers are able to maintain a more deeply entrenched centrality in urban governance.

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The un-equal playground: Developers and urban activists struggling for the right to the city

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

Intrinsic Value and Perceived Essentialism of Culture Heritage Sites as Tools for Planning Interventions

Intrinsic Value and Perceived Essentialism of Culture Heritage Sites as Tools for Planning Interventions

Stability and change in strategic action fields: Municipal solid waste incineration in China, 1988–2020

Complexity and coordination in London’s Silvertown Quays: How real estate developers (re)centred themselves in the planning process

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