Circulating knowledge, marketization and norm‐making: international developers and construction firms in Eastern Europe since 2000

Grubbauer, Monika

doi:10.1111/glob.12079

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“…Njoh, 2003;Beeck mans, 2013), in which colonial powers used and developed the planning ideas, standards and engineering technologies that had been invented to meet European require ments (Rakodi, 2008: 6). As postcolonial critique shows, former imperial powers have 2 See, for example, McCann and Ward (2011), Baker and Temenos (2015) and Grubbauer (2015).…”

Section: Translating Urban and Technological Ideals And Modelsmentioning

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Toward The Networked City? Translating Technological ideals and Planning Models in Water and Sanitation Systems in Dar es Salaam

Monstadt

Schramm

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Section: Translating Urban and Technological Ideals And Modelsmentioning

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Toward The Networked City? Translating Technological ideals and Planning Models in Water and Sanitation Systems in Dar es Salaam

Monstadt

Schramm

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

106

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“…For Jones (2009Jones ( : 2520, it is the 'political and economic actors responsible for the commission of architecture' that are of concern. Property developers, city mayors, financial institutions and asset managers all in different ways concoct and impose standards that regulate building design (Grubbauer, 2015;Guy, 1998). This implies a need to take account of a broader array of forms of private regulation and to explain how they govern the practices of building designers.…”

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How market standards affect building design: The case of low energy design in commercial offices

2018

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This paper develops existing work on building design through a focus on one important yet understudied form of regulation: market standards. Market standards are agreed upon definitions of 'necessary' provision in buildings and are fundamental in 'formatting' markets and determining the value of a building in the market. The paper presents a case study of the design of 10 commercial offices in London, UK, the effects of market standards on the designs and on the potential for the development of lower energy buildings. Theoretically, the paper integrates literatures on standards, institutions and markets to argue that market standards do important 'work' in design processes that require closer scrutiny. In particular, we show that market standards are an important form of normative and cultural regulation in the field of commercial office design; format and act as calculative devices in property markets and result in forms of knowledge diminution that break the relationship between building design and occupiers' practices. Together, these effects result in particular designs being legitimised and valued, and lower energy designs being delegitimised, devalued and pushed to the periphery of the attention of commercial office designers.

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“…The transnational links of corporations and their motivation to maximise profits means that firms are important agents driving economic activity and the circulation of policy frameworks that structure such interaction (Bok and Coe, 2017). Transnational processes of standardisation and norm-setting across numerous professions (such as engineers) and industrial sectors have also strengthened the policy agency of private firms (Grubbauer, 2015;Larner and Laurie, 2010).…”

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“…The work of consultants is noted for their capacity to rearticulate policy concepts into universally digestible forms, often emphasising quantitative measures as hard, neutral evidence of activity, impact and value (Prince, 2014). Analysing the role of private sector agents highlights the increasing corporatisation of policy circulation in certain arenas, and has been well documented in areas of infrastructure, planning and property development (Bok and Coe, 2017;Faulconbridge, 2015;Grubbauer, 2015).…”

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Introduction: the centrality of arenas, agents and actions

Baker¹,

Walker²

2019

Public Policy Circulation

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Contemporary policy work is deeply informed by the circulation of policy initiatives and models from other jurisdictions. Sometimes close and at other times distant, the influence of various 'elsewheres' (Allen and Cochrane, 2007) has become a routine feature of the policy process. Researchers from a range of academic disciplines have matched the increased traffic of policy knowledge with a growing body of knowledge that seeks to document and understand it. While political scientists have the longest history of engagement with travelling policy, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, urban planners and other social scientists have joined the fray in recent years, creating a lively multidisciplinary research effort (Benson and Jordan, 2011; McCann and Ward, 2012). Yet, for the most part, this research effort has been disjointed. Despite having a common interest at their core (the movement of policy), there are largely separate conversations occurring, structured around concepts such as policy diffusion, policy learning, policy transfer and policy mobility. These conversations have 'lived together apart' for some time now, but appear to be converging toward a focus on diverse arenas, agents and actions implicated in the circulation of policy. We have also seen shifts from structure-agency binaries to notions of contextually-embedded agency, from neat, spatially and temporally delimited processes to messy, ongoing processes, and from an exclusive interest in the 'why' of travelling policy to a broader set of research questions regarding the 'how'. In this book we use 'policy circulation' as an expedient umbrella term that signifies this emergent zone of common ground. We intend the notion of policy circulation to be largely agnostic (in ontological, epistemological and methodological terms), but it is inescapably oriented toward the work involved in moving policy and the ongoing nature of such efforts. It provides a loose conceptual and empirical space in which Policy Diffusion Policy diffusion emerged as a distinct area of inquiry in the 1960s, put to the task of studying patterns of intra-national policy adoption in the context of United States federalism. Policy diffusion studies seek to map and explain sequential patterning related to the uptake of 'policy innovations'-defined by Walker (1969, p. 881) as 'a program or policy which is new to the state adopting it'-to understand when and why certain jurisdictions adopt policies from other jurisdictions (see Simmons and Elkins, 2004; Levi-Faur, 2005; Simmons et al., 2006). Although the term 'policy diffusion' is often invoked to describe 'a process through which policy choices in one country affect those made in a second country', Marsh and Sharman (2009, pp. 270-71) argue that those researching policy diffusion more often have in mind 'a process of interdependent policy convergence'. Here, the choices of governments are not just interdependent, whereby 'the choice of a government influences the choices made by others and, conversely, the choice of a governmen...

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Circulating knowledge, marketization and norm‐making: international developers and construction firms in Eastern Europe since 2000

Cited by 14 publications

References 66 publications

Toward The Networked City? Translating Technological ideals and Planning Models in Water and Sanitation Systems in Dar es Salaam

Toward The Networked City? Translating Technological ideals and Planning Models in Water and Sanitation Systems in Dar es Salaam

How market standards affect building design: The case of low energy design in commercial offices

Introduction: the centrality of arenas, agents and actions

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