Gentrification and Anti-gentrification Policies in Seongsu-dong, Seoul: Thinking through Assemblage and Urban Policy Mobilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Sook-Jin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Policy Mobilities

scholarly journals Intra-urban connectedness, policy mobilities and creative city-making: national conservatism vs. urban (neo)liberalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Borén ◽  
Patrycja Grzyś ◽  
Craig Young
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Policy Mobilities ◽  
The City

This article aims to advance the literature on policy mobility by decentring the primacy of mobility itself and focusing on understanding what cities do in order to ‘arrive at’ localized versions of urban policy in relation to globally circulating ideas around creativity. The paper explores the performance of a particular local ‘creative economy’ in terms of institutional and strategic adjustments, key drivers and individuals and events, and the role of long-term local, national and international influences on ‘creative cityness’. It does this through an analysis of cultural and creativity policy and local stakeholders in the cultural policy scene in Gdańsk, Poland, focusing on the local performative aspects of mobile policies and arguing the need to understand the formation of a ‘common local project’ as a form of intra-urban connectedness alongside inter-urban connectedness. The paper extends the range of contexts in which the ‘creative city’ has been analysed to include post-socialist, post-European Union accession Central and Eastern Europe, thus making an original contribution by studying these issues in the context of the complex multi-scalar relations between the city, national government and the supranational European Union and the ideological conflict between national authoritarian neoliberalism and urban and supranational scale (neo-)liberalism.

Enriching Urban Policy Mobilities Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Temenos ◽  
Tom Baker
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Policy Mobilities

scholarly journals Policy mobilities, politics and place: The making of financial urban futures

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Ward
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Tax Increment Financing ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Urban Futures ◽  
Policy Mobilities ◽  
Creativity Climate

The comparative and extrospective nature of contemporary urban policy-making is one that has demanded our attention in recent years. Relatively long established and formal inter-urban networks of professionals of one sort or another have been joined by activists, consultants, financiers, lawyers and think tankers who have involved themselves in the arriving at, and making up of, urban policy. Through conferences, documents, knowledge banks, policy tourism, power-points and webinars, an emergent informational infrastructure has emerged to shape and structure the circulations and making of policy-making across a numbers of areas. From aging to creativity, climate change to drugs, education to transport, urban policies in different spheres have been rendered mobile. There is political work of adaptation, mediation and translation that has to be done to move policies from one location to another, of course. In some cases these policies appear in a range of locations, while in others they do not, a reminder – if one was needed – that those involved in the making up of policy are not always able to render all elements of the future under their control. This emphasis on the relational and territorial geographies of global-urban policy-making captures some of the issues facing those who lead cities. This paper sets out some of the intellectial challenges for those working on these issues, highlighting some potentially fruitful ways forward, illustrating the main arguments through the use of Tax Increment Financing, a financial value-capturing model.

Urban policy mobilities, argumentation and the case of the model city

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean M. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Model City ◽  
Policy Mobilities

scholarly journals Urban policy mobilities und globale Produktionsnetzwerke

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 69-90
Author(s):  
Michael Lukas ◽  
Andreas Brück
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Multinationale Unternehmen ◽  
Policy Mobilities

Als Reaktion auf die urbane Krise des chilenischen Entwicklungsmodells haben einige Multinationale Unternehmen der extraktiven Industrien damit begonnen, ihre Aktivitäten im Bereich der Unternehmensverantwortung auf städtische Interventionen hin zu fokussieren. In enger Zusammenarbeit mit international renommierten Architekt_innen, Planer_innen und Soziolog_innen propagieren Unternehmen des globalen Bergbaus und der Forstwirtschaft ein neues Modell der stadtplanerischen Intervention, das auf Diskurse der Nachhaltigkeit und Bürgerbeteiligung abhebt. Durch die Kombination von theoretischen Einsichten der Forschung zu Urban Policy Mobilities und globalen Produktionsnetzwerken und basierend auf über 60 Expert_inneninterviews analysieren wir die Akteurskonstellationen, Interessen und Dynamiken hinter der Entstehung und Mobilisierung des Modells und diskutieren, inwiefern es sich um Prozesse der strategischen Kopplung handelt, d. h. um eine Stadtentwicklung im Einklang mit Interessen der Multinationalen Unternehmen und ihrer Netzwerke.

‘Does Africa not deserve shiny new cities?’ The power of seductive rhetoric around new cities in Africa

Urban Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 2391-2407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Côté-Roy ◽  
Sarah Moser
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
African Continent ◽  
City Development ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
New City ◽  
Policy Mobilities ◽  
Urban Visions ◽  
Africa Rising

This paper explores the emerging new master-planned city-building trend on the African continent. Situating our research within urban policy mobilities literature, we investigate the ‘Africa rising’ narrative and representation of Africa as a ‘last development frontier’ and ‘last piece of cake’, an imaginary that provides fertile ground for the construction of new cities. Building upon research on the practices of ‘seduction’ that facilitate urban policy circulation, we argue for the relevance of critically examining elite stakeholder rhetoric to understand the relative ease with which the new city development model is being promoted in Africa. We investigate the enablers, advocates and boosters of new cities, represented mainly by states, corporations, non-profits and consultants to render visible the complex networks of relations and private interests that support and enable the creation and circulation of the new cities model in Africa. We also analyse the pervasive ‘right to development’ argument among African elites, which precludes criticism of new city ventures and circulates problematic assumptions about modernity and development. We conclude by discussing how stakeholder rhetoric limits the range of urban visions that are put into circulation and mobilized for Africa’s urban future.

Urban Policy Mobilities Research: Introduction to a Debate

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 824-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Baker ◽  
Cristina Temenos
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Policy Mobilities

Urban Policy Mobilities: The Case of Turin as a Smart City

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 909-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Crivello
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Policy Mobilities

scholarly journals Policy mobilities as comparison: urbanization processes, repeated instances, topologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Development Paths ◽  
Policy Mobilities

Abstract Following on from calls to reformat comparative urban methods to support global urban studies, this paper draws inspiration from policy mobilities to explore how the genetic interconnectedness of urban processes and outcomes can be mobilised methodologically to critique and extend concepts in urban theory through comparison. What might be the scope and tactics for a practice of comparison through connections, which can start anywhere and build comparisons and analytical insights across a very great diversity of urban experiences? This paper explores three possible ways to take this forward. Firstly, tracing a specific connection, such as a policy link, from one context to another or across a number of different contexts contributes to understanding specific urbanization processes. Secondly, following connections brings into view the range and variety of processes and outcomes in different contexts. In the highly transnationalised world of urban policy this method potentially links a very wide variety of diverse urban contexts and draws attention to a multiplicity of repeated instances of urban forms. Finally, the paper considers the potential to work with the array of transnational processes shaping distinctive policy outcomes and development paths as they come together in one specific place - to explore how “elsewhere” is folded in to localised growth paths. Thus, comparative practices could follow policy mobilities to explore the potential of a more topological imagination of thinking across different contexts, and bringing a diversity of urban contexts into analytical conversation. Along these lines, the invention of concepts and understandings of the urban might emerge anywhere, and perhaps find wider relevance across different situations. Following the trajectories of policy mobilities is thus not only a pathway to inventing new methods but also potentially new grounds for theorizing the urban.

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