Introduction: Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory

Lauria, Mickey

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“…Well, a generous reading of the (also radically incomplete) project of re´gulationist urbanism might be constructed in something like these terms. Guided in more or less explicit ways by Harvey's political economy of post-Keynesian urban development, animated to varying degrees by re´gulation-theoretic problematics 4 and conditioned by an abiding scepticism of the 1990s tropes of global market integration and bootstrapping urban 'leadership', it was this line of work that propagated the analytic frame later known as neoliberal urbanism (see Brenner and Theodore, 2002;Jonas and Wilson, 1997;Lauria, 1996;MacLeod, 1997). 5 Echoing the North Atlantic provinces of Harvey's original analysis of urban entrepreneurialism, much of this work was predicated on a critical reading of the spatial and scalar dynamics of the late-Keynesian moment.…”

Section: Placing Hegemonymentioning

confidence: 99%

Transatlantic city, part 1: Conjunctural urbanism

2016

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As the first installment of a two-part article exploring contemporary transformations in metropolitan governance in the wake of the entrepreneurial turns of the 1980s and subsequent waves of neoliberalisation and financialisation, a case is outlined here for a 'conjunctural' approach to urban analysis. This can be considered to be complementary to, but at the same time distinct from, some of the concurrent approaches to comparative urbanism, in that it explicitly problematises the relative positioning of cities in the context of uneven development and multiscalar relations, as well as the dialogic connections between case studies, midlevel concepts and revisable theory claims. Taking as its point of departure the current financial and political crisis in Atlantic City, the New Jersey casino capital, the article historicises the concept of the entrepreneurial city, placing this in the context, successively, of the evolving 'commonsense' of neoliberal governance, the emergence of austerity urbanism and the intensification of financialised restructuring. In tracing an arc from more abstract theory claims through to the specific circumstances of contemporary urban restructuring in the United States, the article sets the stage for the more granular and concrete analysis of 'late-entrepreneurial' Atlantic City to follow in Part 2. To the extent that it is necessary to construct some of this staging, this first part of the article reflects on some of the methodological implications of a conjunctural approach to urban studies.

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Section: Placing Hegemonymentioning

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Transatlantic city, part 1: Conjunctural urbanism

2016

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“…Emphasizing their formulas of negotiation and agreements on the financing and realization of planning schemes, they found the development collaborations and their practices mostly accorded with the modes of division and cooperation between market, state, and municipal governments, namely in relation to the modes of welfare or neoliberal distribution. But UR scholars also pointed to the inherent practices limiting redistribution of wealth (Fainstein & Fainstein, 1983;Lauria, 1997), a notion especially stressed by Stone (1989Stone ( , 1993. Stone understood the ongoing political preference for well-off urban neighborhoods and residents and the resulting deepening of urban divides around all ethical formulations of distributive justice.…”

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Planning allocations and the stubborn north–south divide in Tel Aviv–Jaffa

Margalit

Vertes

2015

Planning Theory & Practice

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Several master plans have attempted to lessen the divide between the poor southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv -Jaffa and the well-off central and northern ones. We compared the planning visions, the main policies and detailed schemes, financing methods, and actual implementation efforts. We found that each planning generation has promoted different development locations, regulations, and allocation methods, and yet implementation has generally been much more durable and with superior socio-spatial impacts in the more affluent areas. To analyze and explain these findings we studied planning allocations in the light of ideas of distributive justice and of urban regime practice. We found that while the welfare state's direct allocation of housing and infrastructure for communities and individuals was not really equal, the later indirect allocations by neoliberal regimes mainly stimulated market forces in the more affluent or attractive areas. We also found that while planning allocation varied in different neighborhoods, the pace and order of planning and realization became crucial elements in urban inequality.

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“…A local frame of policy analysis cannot stand the dynamics of urban development in an episode of rapid urban transformation which is increasingly characterised by trans-local and global tendencies of production and consumption. It is in response to this that some scholars attempted to construct a bridge between urban regime theory and economic regulation theory (Lauria 1997).…”

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The enlargement of local power in trans-scalar strategies of planning: recent tendencies in two European cases

Majoor

Salet

2008

GeoJournal

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The increasing 'trans-scalar' conditions of urbanity imply unique opportunities and threats for urban policies. When drawing up strategic urban policies, cities are confronted with the dominance of higher level policy programmes and even more so with the hegemonic power of globalizing markets. Could urban policies also undergo a similar change and actively pursue the enlargement of local power and energies by becoming actively involved in the higher level scaled networks? By building on useful concepts of urban regime theory and more recent rescaling theories, the authors argue that this element of 'foreign policy' should be integrated in the core analysis of urban policy approaches. The case is explored and illustrated in two European examples of strategic urban planning, namely Barcelona and Copenhagen. The cases provide evidence of the enlargement of local power via active trans-scalar policies. For civic groups, however, this strategy still appears to be a bridge too far in both cases.

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Introduction: Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory

Cited by 68 publications

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Transatlantic city, part 1: Conjunctural urbanism

Transatlantic city, part 1: Conjunctural urbanism

Planning allocations and the stubborn north–south divide in Tel Aviv–Jaffa

The enlargement of local power in trans-scalar strategies of planning: recent tendencies in two European cases

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