Boardwalk of Dreams

Simon, Bryant

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“…The local poverty rate has since surged as high as 36%. Suburbanisation has certainly been a major factor, with the majority of the workforce commuting in to the casinos on the same publicly subsidised highways as the day-tripping gamblers (Simon, 2004). More than this, though, the casino development model itself has had a role in the generation of structural underemployment, weak residential real-estate markets and stunted opportunities for local business growth.…”

Section: Entrepreneurialism Exhaustedmentioning

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Transatlantic city, part 2: Late entrepreneurialism

Peck

2016

Urban Studies

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The first installment of this two-part paper made a case for a conjunctural approach to urban studies, reserving a special place for the provisional formulation and ongoing revision of midlevel theories -from the entrepreneurial city to austerity urbanism and financialised urban governance -while positioning abstraction and contextualisation as simultaneous, dialogic practices. It follows that such arguments can be developed only so far in the absence of concrete cases, where conjunctural accounts actually gain traction, direction and purpose. Seeking to operationalise some of these methodological principles by way of a situated, single-city case study, this part of the paper returns to the financially challenged casino capital of Atlantic City, tracing its long (and notorious) history of entrepreneurial dealings, from Republican machine control to the 'experiment' with legalised gambling that was launched in the mid-1970s, and positioning the structural crisis that preceded the casino pact with the existential crisis that has been generated in the wake of the failure of this distinctive local growth machine. Atlantic City made a very large wager that did not pay off, the unravelling of its much-emulated model of entrepreneurial urbanism dramatising a distinctly 'late-entrepreneurial' moment of fiscally mandated governance and political crisis.

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Section: Entrepreneurialism Exhaustedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transatlantic city, part 2: Late entrepreneurialism

Peck

2016

Urban Studies

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“…93 Second, as was the case in larger centres such as Atlantic City in the 1980s, the reliance on tourism brought with it a growing sense of unease within the community-one that expressed its concern that the interests of "outsiders" were being served at the expense of local citizens. 94 Third, we can see in Victoria, as in other instances of deindustrialization, a shift in power from within the community to without. In the case of Victoria, however, this change happened indirectly.…”

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Victoria Debates Its Post-industrial Reality: Tourism, Deindustrialization, and Store-Hour Regulations, 1900-1958

Dawson¹

2007

Urban History Review

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By examining local debates about store-hour regulations in Victoria, BC, this article highlights the extent to which the city's decision to pursue tourism promotion as an economic alternative to traditional industry divided the local community. Some community members championed tourism as an effective alternative economic strategy and fought to eliminate the city's store-hour restrictions, especially the Wednesday half-holiday, because they believed these restrictions limited tourist expenditures. Others strenuously opposed the elimination of these restrictions on the grounds that they served the social and cultural interests of the local community. The article calls for a more flexible understanding of “deindustrialization” that views the term less as an “era” and more as an inherent characteristic of capitalism and argues that the recent literature on deindustrialization holds important lessons for historians examining the period before 1970.En examinant les débats qui ont eu lieu à Victoria, en Colombie-Britannique, sur les heures d’ouverture des magasins, cet article souligne jusqu’à quel point la décision de la municipalité de poursuivre le tourisme comme alternative économique à l’industrie traditionnelle a divisé la communauté locale. Certains membres de la communauté défendaient l’efficacité du tourisme comme alternative économique et réclamaient l’élimination des règlements municipaux sur les heures d’ouverture, notamment la fermeture d’une demi-journée le mercredi, croyant que ces restrictions limitaient les dépenses des touristes. D’autres s’opposaient vigoureusement à l’élimination de ces restrictions sous prétexte qu’elles servaient les intérêts culturels et sociaux de la communauté. Cet article appelle à une compréhension plus flexible de la « désindustrialisation » qui voit celle-ci moins comme « période historique » que comme caractéristique inhérente au capitalisme et soutient la littérature récente sur le thème de la désindustrialisation contient d’importantes leçons pour les historiens qui examinent la période d’avant 1970

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Introduction: Ethnographies of the Cleaning Body

Herod¹,

Aguiar²

2006

The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism

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Boardwalk of Dreams

Cited by 26 publications

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Transatlantic city, part 2: Late entrepreneurialism

Transatlantic city, part 2: Late entrepreneurialism

Victoria Debates Its Post-industrial Reality: Tourism, Deindustrialization, and Store-Hour Regulations, 1900-1958

Introduction: Ethnographies of the Cleaning Body

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