Emerging intra-urban geographies of the cognitive-cultural economy: Evidence from residential neighbourhoods in Dutch cities

Folmer, Emma; Kloosterman, Robert C.

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“…Although urban geographers are aware of work mobility (Coffey and Shearmur, 2006), in their analyses of the urban space economy they tend to adopt the simplifying assumption that each worker can be spatially assigned to a single place of work (POW) (e.g. Coll-Martínez, 2019; Duvivier et al, 2018; Folmer and Kloosterman, 2017). This research reveals the changing location of jobs and is corroborated by qualitative work on cities (Shearmur and Hutton, 2011) and by location theory (McCann, 2013): such empirical and theoretical validation suggests that the geography of economic activity derived from traditional POW analysis is empirically robust.…”

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Conceptualising and measuring the location of work: Work location as a probability space

Shearmur

2020

Urban Studies

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There is currently considerable interest in workers performing tasks from a variety of workplaces, such as co-working spaces, transport-networks and cafés. However, it remains difficult to ascertain the extent to which this workplace mobility is altering urban economic geography, since most analyses of the location of economic activity in cities are based upon census-type data that assume a unique place of work for each worker. In this paper I propose a framework that extends the concept of place of work: work is probabilistically assigned to different types of workplace according to the proportion of work time spent in each. The limitations of census data are discussed and illustrated, after which the framework is operationalised in an exploratory survey. Census data suggest a modest increase in workplace mobility, with most work still taking place either at home or in a fixed workplace. The paper’s principal contribution is to explain these data’s limitations and show how work location can be operationalised as a probability space.

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Section: Mobilities Work Tasks and Work Locationmentioning

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Conceptualising and measuring the location of work: Work location as a probability space

Shearmur

2020

Urban Studies

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“…Many of the most striking transformations proceeding in the urban land nexus today (including advances in so-called smart-city technologies) derive directly and indirectly from the technological, economic, and political logic of this third wave of capitalism (See also Hutton 2008;Folmer and Kloosterman, 2017). Three important examples of these transformations and their relationship to land redevelopment processes are dealt with specifically later in this paper, namely, the functional and visual renascence of central business districts (See also Fainstein, 2001;Kaika, 2010), the intensifying gentrification of low-income neighborhoods in the inner city (Clark, 2005;Lees at al., 2007;Scott, 2018), and the formation of extended polycentric post-suburban spaces (Hall and Pain, 2009;Keil, 2018).…”

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Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

Scott

2018

Journal of Urban Technology

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I seek to synthesize several different approaches to issues of urban land redevelopment and the built environment. The essay focuses on developments in the third and current historical wave of capitalist development. I describe the economic logic of land-use change with reference to both commercial and residential property. This logic has become intimately intertwined with global finance and this state of affairs has introduced new elements of fluidity and risk into the built environment. Issues of urban policy and the role of municipal authorities in shaping urban land markets are then considered. I describe how local government agencies increasingly pursue development projects in complex partnerships with representatives of the real-estate industry. In the second half of the paper, the overall argument is recast by reference to three important trends in regard to landredevelopment and the built environment in third-wave cities, namely, the economic and architectural renaissance of central business districts, the widespread gentrification of inner-city neighborhoods, and the emergence of a new post-suburban phase of peripheral urban expansion. KEYWORDS Built environment; financialization; land-use change; third-wave cities; urban redevelopment Urban Land and Property in Question This paper takes the form of an extended essay in which I seek to synthesize several different approaches to questions of land redevelopment and the built environment in contemporary cities. My objective is to bring these approaches into juxtaposition with one another so as to shed fresh light on the ways in which they operate, their relations to the functional structure of the city, and how they are currently reshaping patterns of urban development. A complex scientific and political question about the valuation, appropriation, and use of urban land and property emerges endemically within cities in capitalist society (Roweis and Scott, 1978). The substance of this question can be discerned within the phenomenon of the urban land nexus conceived as a mass of functionally interdependent assets such as factories, offices, houses, shopping facilities, public buildings, infrastructures, and so on, arranged in conjoint spatial patterns around a common center of gravity (Scott, 1980; Scott and Storper, 2015). Complex processes of redevelopment, piloted by intermediaries

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Section: Focusing Ethnic Entrepreneurship Research At the Urban Scalementioning

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“…Besides political programming, spatial conditions play a major role in the development of ethnic economies. Differences do not only occur between city types but also between inner-urban and suburban ethnic commercial neighbourhoods as well as between cities with a varying scalar positioning (Glick Schiller & Çağlar 2009;Folmer & Risselada 2013;Folmer 2014;Folmer & Kloosterman 2017;Kloosterman 2019). © 2019 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG Ethnic entrepreneurship research has largely framed urban politics as the sum of formal and informal local politics that influence ethnic entrepreneurship.…”

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Urban Politics On Ethnic Entrepreneurship

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Hernández

2019

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper introduces the special issue on “Urban Politics on Ethnic Entrepreneurship” based on research insights and focused discussion that bridges disciplinary discourses. It challenges ethnic entrepreneurship theory by presenting new perspectives and empirical case studies from North America and Europe. As ethnic diversity is widely regarded as a special asset for entrepreneurial cities in the competitive global city environment, there is a need to better understand how ethnic entrepreneurship is used as a resource in city branding and how it is enabled through certain policies. Starting from the historical development of ethnic entrepreneurship research, the introduction leads over to the theoretical embedding of the special issue with its relational focus on space. The contribution proceeds with linking ethnic entrepreneurship to urban politics and outlines three major fields of research that are covered in the special issue: symbolic value to urban development, placemaking and social inclusion, and urban planning.

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Emerging intra-urban geographies of the cognitive-cultural economy: Evidence from residential neighbourhoods in Dutch cities

Cited by 9 publications

References 48 publications

Conceptualising and measuring the location of work: Work location as a probability space

Conceptualising and measuring the location of work: Work location as a probability space

Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

Urban Politics On Ethnic Entrepreneurship

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