Policy Boosterism, Policy Mobilities, and the Extrospective City

McCann, Edward

doi:10.1080/02723638.2013.778627

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“…This is done in order to mobilise new resources, secure participation in exclusive networks of knowledge exchange (e.g., trans-municipal networks, large-scale research projects), and access new opportunities for investments, resources and opportunities for knowledge exchange (e.g., trans-municipal networks). This mode of governing is reminiscent of 'policy boosterism' [112]: in a macro-context of intense inter-city competition, portraying the city as a green-entrepreneurial exemplar is intertwined with leveraging urban sustainability to attract investments and people. City-branding is central to leveraging, as local authorities rework the image and reputation of their cities, placing emphasis on their 'greenness', 'innovativeness' or alternative characters.…”

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Unpacking the Formation of Favourable Environments for Urban Experimentation: The Case of the Bristol Energy Scene

2018

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Urban experimentation with sustainability has been gaining prominence in policy and academic discourses about urban transformations, spurring the creation of urban living laboratories and transition arenas. However, the academic literature has only begun examining why experimentation flourishes in particular cities, and why it conforms to place-specific styles. Meanwhile, the strategic niche management (SNM) tradition has extensively explored how protective spaces for experimentation emerge but has dealt only tangentially with why this happens in particular places. In this paper, we develop an approach for unpacking the formation of favourable environments for experimentation in specific places. We adopt an abductive research design to create a dialogue between distinct theoretical positions and one in-depth case study. Our case examines the formation of the Bristol energy scene, which hosts a variety of experimental initiatives concerning civic energy alternatives. Based on our findings, we refine the understanding of the processes shaping this experimental setting. There is value in characterising the 'genealogy' of experimental spaces and acknowledging their antecedents, path-dependencies and place-specificities. Efforts to foster urban transformation demand nuanced accounts of how places become experimental because they are not static backgrounds for experimentation.

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“…Desde otras perspectivas, la relevancia de lo simbólico en este plano ha llevado a algunos autores a señalar que urbanismo y comunicación tienden a fundirse (Améndola, 2000). Otras aproximaciones que intentan captar esta dimensión en la construcción de proyectos urbanos y de ciudades han acudido a conceptos como el de policy boosterism (McCann, 2013) y marketing urbano (Duque Franco, 2011). Particularmente, el concepto de policy boosterism alude a la promoción activa de programas y políticas desarrolladas localmente entre campos más extensos geográficamente, comunidades de pares interesados más extendidas, pero también respecto a actores locales (McCann, 2013), es decir, uno de los asuntos centrales que incumben a este artículo donde la actividad de la CAPMSA para promocionarse dentro y fuera del área intenta obtener el consenso necesario para el avance de la urbanización.…”

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Promocionando grandes proyectos urbanos: cuestiones (trans)locales en Puerto Madero (Buenos Aires), 1989-2017

Jajamovich¹

2018

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A lo largo del tiempo, Puerto Madero fue asociado a la corrupción y señalado como ejemplificación de un modelo de ciudad excluyente. Frente a tales representaciones negativas y a la par de la urbanización del área, la Corporación Antiguo Puerto Madero Sociedad Anónima promovió una serie de iniciativas dentro y fuera del área a los fines de obtener consenso para su desarrollo y evitar resistencias a su avance. Apoyado en metodologías cualitativas y en el análisis de fuentes primarias y secundarias y la realización de entrevistas a informantes clave, el artículo concluye que el desarrollo de grandes proyectos urbanos supone procesos materiales y simbólicos. Asimismo, postula la necesidad de diluir la dicotomía entre un adentro y un afuera de estas iniciativas al explorar cómo la promoción y el reconocimiento externo también colaboran a legitimar Puerto Madero en relación con audiencias locales y nacionales.

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“…Cities and regions use different forms of branding in order to increase their attractiveness for tourists, and new inhabitants, companies and investments, as well as to create or strengthen the local identity (McCann, 2013). These intensified place branding efforts are most often explained with reference to the increasing competition between cities and regions (Andersson, 2014;Ashworth, Kavaratzis, & Wannaby, 2015).…”

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“…In this context, McCann (2013) questions if the reasons for communicating policies and presenting a city's success are purely driven by egoistic branding considerations. Or as he puts it 'many city leaders and other powerful urban policy actors seem to be driven by a desire to be leaders as well as winners ' (p. 20) in a global competition (McCann, 2013).…”

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Green Attraction—Transnational Municipal Climate Networks and Green City Branding

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Anderberg²

2015

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In this article, we investigate the nexus of green city branding and municipal climate networks. In recent decades, a number of formal transnational municipal climate networks have emerged and their membership continues to increase. In parallel, city branding that is based on green policies, has gained importance. Based on quantitative and qualitative data, we assess how and to what extent German cities use their membership in transnational municipal climate networks to communicate green city brands. In contrast to our expectations, we encountered very few indications of green city branding efforts by German cities. Our analysis shows that in general, branding considerations only play a negligible role in the involvement of cities in transnational municipal climate networks or climate policies. Instead, it seems that German cities use their membership in climate networks, to genuinely improve local climate change strategies. We therefore suggest that research on green city branding should be more sensitive to the particular context of cities and efforts should be made to unveil the underlying motives for the communication of green policies.

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Policy Boosterism, Policy Mobilities, and the Extrospective City

Cited by 293 publications

References 42 publications

Unpacking the Formation of Favourable Environments for Urban Experimentation: The Case of the Bristol Energy Scene

Unpacking the Formation of Favourable Environments for Urban Experimentation: The Case of the Bristol Energy Scene

Promocionando grandes proyectos urbanos: cuestiones (trans)locales en Puerto Madero (Buenos Aires), 1989-2017

Green Attraction—Transnational Municipal Climate Networks and Green City Branding

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