Reconnecting the disconnected: The politics of infrastructure in the in-between city

Young, Douglas L.; Keil, Roger

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2009.10.002

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“…Of course, urban rhythms have always been more complex and heterogeneous than this. Nevertheless, these dominant rhythms combined with the deindustrialisation and depopulation of city centres in the UK through the 1970s and 1980s to leave city centres empty, with little scope for entertainment, living and consumption (Gaffikin andWarf, 1993, Young andKeil, 2010). Though less prominent in the UK than elsewhere, this trend has even in some locations led to the suburbanisation of nightlife provision as well (Hubbard, 2005).…”

Section: Planning Alive After Fivementioning

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‘Alive after five’: Constructing the neoliberal night in Newcastle upon Tyne

Shaw

2013

Urban Studies

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. begun to question the use and the scope of the concept 'neoliberalism'. In this paper, I identify two common approaches to studying neoliberalism, one exploring neoliberalism as a series of policy networks, the other exploring neoliberalism as the governance of subjectivities. I argue that to understand the urban night, we need to explore both these senses of 'neoliberalism'.As a case study, I take the 'Alive After Five' project, organised by the Business Improvement District in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which sought to extend shopping hours in order to encourage more people to use the city at night. Drawing from Actor-Network-Theory, I explore the planning, the translation, and the practice of this new project. In doing so, I explore the on-going nature and influence of neoliberal policy on the urban night in the UK.2

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Section: Planning Alive After Fivementioning

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‘Alive after five’: Constructing the neoliberal night in Newcastle upon Tyne

Shaw

2013

Urban Studies

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“…Here consolidated habits linked to our way of commuting, living and consuming are progressing, giving way to new practices, only partly comprehensible on the basis of some of the internationally available theories and conceptualizations. Also for this reason, various names have been proposed for these places in which traditional logics of urban space are reconfigured (Keil 2013;Brenner 2013b;Young and Keil 2010;Walks 2013). At the same time, peri-urban areas tend to share some key features that have by now attracted the attention of researchers and policy analysts alike (Nilsson et al 2013;Tosics 2013;Phelps and Wu 2011).…”

Section: The Peri-urban Areas As Research Field On the Transformationmentioning

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“…In this direction, the post-metropolis concept brought in by Soja (2011) as a "new phase of multi-scalar regional urbanization" (p. 680), and the "in-between spaces" by Young and Keil (2010) in a re-conceptualisation of the Sieverts' work (2003) on the emerging patterns of urbanization and the connections between various aspects of urbanity in the urban regions, as well as the socio-spatial transformations in planetary urbanization (Brenner and Schmid 2013, p. 161) help to clarify the meaning and significance of these multidimensional evolving processes.…”

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Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

Pucci¹,

Colleoni²

2016

Research for Development

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“…Chicago's 'backstage city' is consequently locked-in a peripheral form of in-between urbanization as an extended landscape characterized by "the remnant spaces of Fordist urbanization" (Young and Keil, 2010, page 90) and infrastructural bypassing conditioned by the rhythms of global urbanization.…”

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On the road to the in-between city: Excavating peripheral urbanisation in Chicago’s ‘Crosstown Corridor’

Addie

2015

Environ Plan A

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This paper critically engages the uneven distribution of infrastructure provision, connectivity, and mobility in contemporary neoliberal urban landscapes by uncovering the path dependent trajectories and politics of transportation in post-suburbia. Departing from contemporary debates on the evolving geography of urban peripheries, I utilize a relational theorization of the 'in-between city' to empirically unpack the urbanization processes internalized in the evolution of the 'Zwischenstadt' in a North American context. Through a longue durée case study of transportation planning, politics, and spatial practice in Chicago's 'Crosstown Corridor', in-between urbanization is demonstrated to express an on-going multiscalar mediation of cohabiting modes of urbanism and strategic state actions that challenge generalized (sub)urbanization narratives. Despite continued interest from planners, politicians, and business groups, proposals for both a major urban expressway and rapid transit line have proved political lightning rods.Consequently, neighborhood protests, personal political battles, and macro-economic trends have locked-in a neglected development pathway for Chicago's inner suburbs. I argue that through disclosing key contradictory political-economic imperatives and conflicting scales of mobility, it is possible to identify space for political and planning interventions that can adapt to, and develop, polycentric urban practice in and through in-between urban space.

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Reconnecting the disconnected: The politics of infrastructure in the in-between city

Cited by 86 publications

References 12 publications

‘Alive after five’: Constructing the neoliberal night in Newcastle upon Tyne

‘Alive after five’: Constructing the neoliberal night in Newcastle upon Tyne

Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

On the road to the in-between city: Excavating peripheral urbanisation in Chicago’s ‘Crosstown Corridor’

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