Alternative-substitute business models and the provision of local infrastructure: Alterity as a solution to financialization and public-sector failure

Bryson, John R.; Mulhall, Rachel; Song, Meng; Loo, Becky P.Y.; Dawson, Richard; Rogers, C. D. F.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.06.022

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“…They have scrutinised the dynamics of temporary transformation in cities like Berlin (Colomb, 2012), Marseille (Andres, 2011(Andres, , 2013, Brussels (Groth and Corijn, 2005), Dublin (Moore-Cherry and Mccarthy, 2016) or Turin (Rota and Salone, 2014), where market mechanisms were gripped (Harris, 2015;Tardiveau and Mallo, 2014). Here, temporary urbanisms were responses to uncertainty and to private and public sector failure with citizens compensating for uses/facilities they miss (Bryson et al, 2018). Thus, temporary urbanisms may be viewed as mechanisms for activation -whether improving the material infrastructures of places or reenlivening spaces deemed 'vacant' or 'unproductive'.…”

Section: Framing a Re-interrogation Of Temporary Urbanismsmentioning

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New directions in the theorisation of temporary urbanisms: Adaptability, activation and trajectory

Andres

Kraftl

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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This article rethinks processes and practices of urban temporariness in a more agile, localised and context-specific way, where rhythms and dynamics of the everyday are clearly acknowledged. It discusses the directions of research required to theorise ‘temporary urbanisms’. To do so, three overlapping literatures are used: Lefebvrian conceptualisations of rhythms and the everyday; evolutionary analyses of path of change and path creation; and geographies of architecture. This article recognises that although temporariness is (evidently) a universal urban condition, diverse discursive and practical dynamics exist directing urban temporariness along particular channels and shaping space significantly while impacting people’s living environments.

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Section: Framing a Re-interrogation Of Temporary Urbanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

New directions in the theorisation of temporary urbanisms: Adaptability, activation and trajectory

Andres

Kraftl

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…First, this approach ignores non-capitalist forms of urbanism. It fails to engage with the alterity or diversity debate (Bryson et al, 2018) that recognises that capitalist urbanism has within itself non-capitalist processes. These alternative ways of place-making and place-shaping should not be marginalised or ignored.…”

Section: Towards An Alternative Urban Theory -Parallax Dimensions Interpolations and Scalementioning

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Ordinary cities, extraordinary geographies: parallax dimensions, interpolations and the scale question

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Kalafsky²,

Vanchan³

2021

Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies

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“…The LCM provides a process for constructing an evidence base and a plausible narrative describing how to get from a city's current performance to a desired future performance. In essence, it establishes the 'business case' for the intervention, from which alternative business models can be constructed directly using the intended benefits to point to the value that is realised (Rogers, 2018), enhanced by systems mapping to enrich the opportunities for value creations and realisation (Bouch & Rogers, 2017;Bouch, et al, In Press) and set against alternative forms of investment (Bryson, et al, 2018). Through determining how the intervention can deliver multiple benefits to substantially advance the city in its journey towards a more sustainable, resilient and liveable future, it makes the case for transformational change.…”

Section: Implications For Civil Engineeringmentioning

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The Liveable Cities Method: establishing the case for transformative change for a UK metro

Leach

Rogers

Ortegón-Sanchez

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering

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There is currently great interest in the creation of sustainable and liveable cities, both in the UK and globally. While it can be argued that good progress is being made in thinking about the needs of future cities, meeting these needs and aspirations in practice poses major challenges of understanding and measurement (what is meant by these terms and how can progress towards their achievement be measured?), complexity (cities are complex systems of systems with many interacting parts) and resilience (will interventions made today be relevant and effective in the future?). The Liveable Cities research programme created a systematic decision-making method for improving urban sustainability and liveability: the Liveable Cities Method (LCM). The LCM prioritises four criteria – individual and societal well-being, resource security, resource efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions as a proxy for environmental harm – in an interconnected framework and assesses the need for, and the resilience of, interventions designed to move cities towards improved sustainability and liveability. This paper illustrates the LCM through an example intervention made to the city of Birmingham, UK, and highlights how addressing sustainability and liveability in this way offers unique opportunities for the UK civil engineering profession to lead thinking among urban professionals.

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Alternative-substitute business models and the provision of local infrastructure: Alterity as a solution to financialization and public-sector failure

Cited by 25 publications

References 24 publications

New directions in the theorisation of temporary urbanisms: Adaptability, activation and trajectory

New directions in the theorisation of temporary urbanisms: Adaptability, activation and trajectory

Ordinary cities, extraordinary geographies: parallax dimensions, interpolations and the scale question

The Liveable Cities Method: establishing the case for transformative change for a UK metro

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