Overcoming the Neglect of Economics in Urban Regime Theory

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Imbroscio
Keyword(s):  
Regime Theory ◽  
Urban Regime Theory ◽  
Urban Regime

‘Imagined San Francisco’: Unpacking Urban Regime Theory through Interactive Cartography

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-143
Author(s):  
Ocean Howell
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Urban Regime Theory ◽  
Digital Mapping ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The City ◽  
Interactive Cartography

American urban historians have begun to understand that digital mapping provides a potentially powerful tool to describe political power. There are now important projects that map change in the American city along a number of dimensions, including zoning, suburbanization, commercial development, transportation infrastructure, and especially segregation. Most projects use their visual sources to illustrate the material consequences of the policies of powerful agencies and dominant planning ‘regimes.’ As useful as these projects are, they often inadvertently imbue their visualizations with an aura of inevitability, and thereby present political power as a kind of static substance–possess this and you can remake the city to serve your interests. A new project called ‘Imagined San Francisco’ is motivated by a desire to expand upon this approach, treating visual material not only to illustrate outcomes, but also to interrogate historical processes, and using maps, plans, drawings, and photographs not only to show what did happen, but also what might have happened. By enabling users to layer a series of historical urban plans–with a special emphasis on unrealized plans–‘Imagined San Francisco’ presents the city not only as a series of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power.

The Possibility of a Housing Authority

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-356
Author(s):  
Nicholas Bauroth
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Urban Regime Theory ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Civic Center

This study uses urban regime theory to understand the events surrounding Fargo urban renewal during the 1950s. Specifically, it focuses upon the struggle between realtors, banking officers, government officials, and other local actors, as they established a plan for relocating Fargo residents displaced by urban renewal. With a downtown Civic Center as their ultimate goal, coalition partners set aside their differences and produced an unprecedented plan: to avoid any reliance on public housing, relocation would be handled via the private sector, specifically the Fargo Board of Realtors. The study demonstrates that this relocation plan and its subsequent revisions reflected the interests of the individual regime members.

The Limits of Urban Regime Theory

1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Sites
Keyword(s):  
Regime Theory ◽  
Urban Regime Theory ◽  
Urban Regime

scholarly journals Verstetigung in der nachhaltigen Quartiersentwicklung : eine Analyse aus Sicht der Urban Regime Theory

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 208-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Drilling
Keyword(s):  
Regime Theory ◽  
Eine Analyse ◽  
Urban Regime Theory ◽  
Urban Regime

Abstract. Städte haben in den vergangenen Jahren begonnen, eine quartiersbezogene Nachhaltigkeitspolitik zu realisieren, die auf einem netzwerkorientierten Planungsverständnis aufbaut. Vor allem für die Akteure auf der lokalen Ebene eröffnet sich damit die Möglichkeit, konsequenter als bisher in die Planung eingebunden zu werden. Das ist eine der Grundvoraussetzungen des Verstetigungsansatzes, der auf die Notwendigkeit institutioneller Mechanismen zur Transformation von Bürgerengagement in tragfähige Strukturen hinweist. Um diese Mechanismen zu beschreiben, eignet sich die Urban Regime Theory. Regime werden verstanden als Formen längerfristiger Koalitionen, die Akteure anregen, Ressourcen und Kompetenzen zu investieren. Auf der Basis bestehender Arbeiten zu urbanen Regimen bereitet der vorliegende Beitrag die Kontexte auf, in denen sich Projekte nachhaltiger Quartiersentwicklung verorten lassen. Anschliessend werden am Beispiel von Stadtquartieren in Basel, Luzern und Genf drei Idealtypen von Regimen eingeführt. Insgesamt – so die These des vorliegenden Beitrages – kann die Ausweisung unterschiedlicher Regime nachhaltiger Quartiersentwicklung Planungsverantwortliche bei der Formulierung von Verstetigungsstrategien auf Quartiersebene unterstützen.

Urban Regime Theory in Comparative Perspective

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Stoker ◽  
K Mossberger
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Urban Regime Theory ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Essential Contribution ◽  
Cross National

The urban literature has devoted increasing attention to cross-national comparison of urban change and governance. What is lacking, however, is the development of conceptual frameworks that are adequate to embrace the greater variation in conditions encountered in cross-national research, compared with conditions within a single country. Without such a framework, comparison remains an exercise in depicting unique and unrelated cases. Urban regime theory holds potential for explaining the variety of arrangements through which policymakers in cities have coped with change, because of its sensitivity to local conditions and local actors. Its essential contribution is to focus attention on the collective action problems that have to be overcome for effective urban governance to emerge. The nature of the collective action challenge varies according to the purpose, composition, and position of potential regime partners. Substantial differences in motivating factors must be taken into account in order to apply regime analysis cross-nationally. Drawing upon differences already identified in the regime literature, the authors propose a typology of organic, instrumental, and symbolic regimes.

Between Realism and Revolt

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Davies
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Urban Regime Theory ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Between Realism and Revolt explores urban governance in the “age of austerity”, focusing on the period between the global financial crisis of 2008-9 and the beginning of the global Coronavirus pandemic at the end of 2019. It considers urban governance after the 2008 crisis, from the perspective of governability. How did cities navigate the crisis and the aftermath of austerity, with what political ordering and disordering dynamics at the forefront? To answer these questions it engages with two influential theoretical currents, Urban Regime Theory and Gramscian state theory, with a view to understanding how governance enabled austerity, deflected or intensified localised expressions of crisis, and generated more-or-less successful political alternatives. It develops a comparative analysis of case studies undertaken in the cities of Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Greater Dandenong (Melbourne), Leicester, Montreal and Nantes, and concludes by highlighting five characteristics that cut across the cities, unevenly and in different configurations: economic rationalism, weak hegemony, retreat to dominance, weak counter-hegemony and radically contagious politicisations.

The peculiar economics of sports team ownership

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Mason ◽  
Stacy-Lynn Sant ◽  
Brian Soebbing
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Field Performance ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Urban Regime Theory ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
Sports Team

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how North American professional team owners are engaging in broader urban development projects that have their teams as anchor tenants in new sports facilities, by examining the case of Rogers Arena in Edmonton, Canada. Design/methodology/approach Approached from a constructionist perspective, the study employed an instrumental case study strategy as it facilitates understanding and description of a particular phenomenon and allows researchers to use the case as a comparative point across other settings (with similar conditions) in which the phenomenon might be present. Findings Using urban regime theory as a framework, the authors found that in Edmonton, the team owner was able to align his interests with other political and business interests by engaging in a development strategy that increased the vibrancy of Edmonton’s downtown core. As a result, the owner was able to garner support for both the arena and the surrounding development. Research limitations/implications The authors argue that this new model of team owner as developer has several implications: on-field performance may only be important insofar as it drives demand for the development; the owner’s focus is on driving revenues and profits from interests outside of the sports facility itself; and the team (and the threat of relocation) is leveraged to gain master developer status for the ownership group. Originality/value This paper adds to the understanding of owner interests and how franchise profitability and solvency can be tied to other related business interests controlled by team owners.

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