Autori
McCann, Eugene
Ward, Kevin

Titolo
Exploring Urban Policy Mobilities: the Case of Business Improvement Districts
Periodico
Sociologica
Anno: 2014 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 0

The paper contributes to understanding cities in the world by first outlining the conceptualand empirical challenges of theorizing the urban/global nexus in both relational andterritorial terms. It argues that the most useful and appropriate approach to understanding contemporaryurban governance in a global context is to develop a conceptualization that is equallysensitive to the role of relational and territorial geographies, of fixity and of flow, of globalcontexts and of place-specificities (and vice versa), of structural imperatives and of embodiedpractices, in the production of cities. To illustrate the benefits of this conceptualization, the paperwill explore how downtown development is governed in a growing number of cities. The roleof the Business Improvement District (BID) model in shaping downtowns will be examined interms of: (1) how and by whom these models are developed in a global-relational context andare set in motion through scaled circuits of policy knowledge and (2) how the mobilization ofthese models are conditioned by their territorialization in specific spatial and political economiccontexts. The paper emphasizes that the "local globalness" of policy models like BIDs and theirconsequences for cities can best be understood through a combined focus on relationality andterritoriality.



SICI: 1971-8853(2014)1<0:EUPMTC>2.0.ZU;2-6
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