Toward A Contingent Urban Neoliberalism

Wilson, David

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.25.8.771

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“…Such analysis is required to investigate how the global spread of gentrification -like the extension of market rule through neoliberalism -operates through different urban economic bases, social hierarchies, cultural histories and institutional frameworks (Wilson, 2004). This is why Van Weesep (1994, p. 80) urges that policy-orientated gentrification research is 'better served by the analysis of concrete problems than by general descriptions of broad trends which disregard many of their manifestations and effects.…”

Section: Gentrification In a World Of Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

2008

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Gentrification has become a global phenomenon over the last fifteen years, and has been understood as an increasingly important strategy within neoliberal policy-making.Focusing on London and Mumbai, this paper details how public policies and planning regimes have been reconfigured and rescaled to facilitate and encourage new property speculation. However, against more generalised and abstract accounts of the neoliberal city, the paper uses its comparative perspective to emphasise the geographically and historically specific manifestations and effects of gentrification processes. By highlighting different forms of state intervention and sharper socio-spatial impacts in Mumbai, the paper challenges the Eurocentric framing of a global spread of gentrification, and argues Mumbai can act as an important source of learning for gentrification research. 2Almost everywhere urban societies . . . seem to be going around in circles: they seem to be strangely slow and maladroit in dealing with the most urgent, material needs which they can well afford to meet -from the elimination of homelessness in London (a relatively small but stubborn problem) to the provision of water taps in the bustees of Bombay. (Glass, 1989, p. 102)

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Section: Gentrification In a World Of Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

2008

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“…Contesting the use of neoliberalism as a universal explanation of emergent forms of urban governance, he argues that current approaches tend to neglect 'contingency, nuances, and less celebrated or allegedly defunct logics of government'. His approach, rooted in a Foucaultinspired sociology of governance, suggests taking into consideration a 'place-specific reflexiveness rooted in response to situated conditions and circumstances', which is entailed in the notion of 'contingent urban neo-liberalism' (Wilson, 2004). His analysis of 'clean and safe' security models, such as ambassadors programmes, shows that these programmes are anchored by public police and that some BIDs rely on the continued or enhanced flow of public services.…”

Section: A Critical Examination Of the Neoliberalization Of Urban Govmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The analysis of BIDs has been more particularly located within the context of the set of new regulations, programmes and policies that characterizes the shift towards 'urban entrepreneurialism' (Harvey, 1989;Ward, 2005. By enhancing the attractiveness and the vitality of various urban areas within the city, BIDs' strategies respond to the prime objective of strengthening the competitiveness of the city and of specific quarters in a context characterized by an intensified inter-and intra-metropolitan competition (Ward, 2000;Wilson, 2004;Heeg and Rosol, 2007).…”

Section: A Critical Examination Of the Neoliberalization Of Urban Govmentioning

confidence: 99%

Business Improvement Districts (BIDs): the internationalization and contextualization of a ‘travelling concept’

Peyroux

Pütz²,

Glasze

2012

European Urban and Regional Studies

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In many countries across the world, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are seen as a new model of sub-municipal governance to secure private capital for improving the attractiveness of a city’s central spaces. Originating from North America (Canada and the United States), this model of self-taxing districts, often based on public–private partnerships, has spread to other continents, including Europe, Australia and Africa. This theme issue explores the internationalization and the contextualization of the BID model in both Northern countries (the United States, Canada, Germany and Sweden) and Southern countries (South Africa). The collection of articles focuses on key debates surrounding BIDs and presents different theoretical perspectives as well as lines of argument in relation to these debates. Relying on approaches based on political economy and local governance regimes, Foucault-inspired sociology of governance and governmentality studies or critical discourse analysis, the authors discuss the nature and significance of BIDs in relation to state restructuring and the neoliberalization of urban policies and to emergent rationalities and practices of security governance and policing arrangements. Using the recent discussions of policy transfer and ‘urban policy mobilities’, they look at the international circulation of the BID model and its local embeddedness, exploring the role of the global circuits of knowledge and the ways in which the model has been adopted and reshaped in different cities. Drawing a complex and differentiated picture of BIDs across continents and cities, this collection of articles emphasizes both the need for more comparative research across diverse urban experiences and contexts and the relevance of a relational perspective in urban studies that blurs the traditional lines of separation between studies of Northern and Southern cities.

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“…lumber, gold) in small towns (often less than 15,000 people) and considered a range of areas including crime, health, education, social connectedness, and community cohesion [2]. These studies have examined the life-cycle of resource-based communities [3,4], the interaction between commodity prices and local well-being [5], the social impacts of mine closure [6], rapid resource-sector growth [7], income distribution in resource communities [8], the presence of poverty [9,10], and the broader political economy of the resource sector [11]. Much of this literature points to the volatile and often problematic relationship between resource extraction and community well-being.…”

Section: Resource-based Communitiesmentioning

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Resiliency and resource-based communities: a Canadian case study

Deacon¹,

Lamanes²

2015

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Resource-based communities (RBC) are a significant feature of the economic geography of Canada. For many of these economies, particularly those based on minerals and petroleum resources, the past 20 years has witnessed tremendous growth. For example, energy exports contributed $113 billion to the Canadian economy in 2011 alone. At the center of this boom is the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB). Like no other RBC in Canadian history, the region's population has doubled to over 100,000 in less than 10 years. This growth has caused the RMWB to struggle to keep pace with the infrastructural needs of its residents (e.g. health, education, recreation facilities). Despite such concerns, the population of the region is estimated to increase to 250,000 within 30 years. Using the RMWB as a case study, this project examines Canada's premiere resourcebased region from a long-term resiliency perspective. This project uses key informant interviews with local stakeholders to examine local perceptions of growth and development and their impact on community resiliency. We identify resident retention and resident involvement as the two primary concerns of residents linked to resiliency. This exploratory study suggests the need for further research to examine: (1) the perceived linkages between local infrastructural ideals and institutional governance; (2) the potential role of external information sources (e.g. the mainstream media) on perceptions of growth and development; and (3) the need to develop a "tool-kit" of informative resources for future resource-based communities grappling with rapid growth and attempting to become resilient to the associated challenges.

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Toward A Contingent Urban Neoliberalism

Cited by 164 publications

References 20 publications

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

Business Improvement Districts (BIDs): the internationalization and contextualization of a ‘travelling concept’

Resiliency and resource-based communities: a Canadian case study

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