The co-production of purified space: hybrid policing in German Business Improvement Districts

Eick, Volker

doi:10.1177/0969776411420018

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“…Eick (2012) draws attention to the way the specifics of the institutional (regulatory, normative and cultural) environment of a place renders a mobile model more or less implementable, changes being made when institutional differences prevent a model being adopted in a form that exists elsewhere (see also Peck and Theodore 2010b). For Faulconbridge (2013), the outcome of mobility is, therefore, often a bricolage process through which a model is made to work in a particular local context.…”

Section: Mutating Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local variants of mobile sustainable building assessment models: the marketization and constrained mutation of BREEAM ES

Faulconbridge

Yalciner

2015

Global Networks

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The globalization of sustainable building assessment models is now a familiar topic, as are related debates about the degrees of local sensitivity of such models. The contribution of this paper is to examine empirically the way marketization affects the mutation of models as they travel, and the implications of this for local sensitivity. By marketization we mean the effects when both a market for models emerges, and the adoption of a model acts as a means for an organization or city to gain competitive advantage over rivals. Using the case of one sustainable building assessment model, the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Model (BREEAM), and its movement from the UK to Spain and transformation into BREEAM ES, the paper reveals the important ways that marketization can constrain mutation. Using Callon's ideas about translation, we show that the model was translated in a way designed to minimize adaptations to local context in order to maximise the comparability of buildings assessed using BREEAM ES with building assessed using other variants of the BREEAM model. This suggests, we claim, that marketization is a significant reason for the outcomes of the mobility of BREEAM being the opposite of that observed in many previous studies where a model's name stays the same but its content and the practice of implementation varies.

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Section: Mutating Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local variants of mobile sustainable building assessment models: the marketization and constrained mutation of BREEAM ES

Faulconbridge

Yalciner

2015

Global Networks

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“…A successful town centre is one where shops are occupied and trade is brisk. In recent literature the high street has been presented as a place of commercial decline and crisis (Hallsworth et al 2010); as a site of economic recovery and reconstruction (Wrigley and Dolega 2011); or as a space to be managed, often with shades of social sanitisation and the exclusion of 'undesirables' through the 'hybrid policing' of private security firms (Eick 2012).…”

Section: From Consumer Rights To Tactical Urbanism: Citizenship In Thmentioning

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From ‘me towns’ to ‘we towns’: activist citizenship in UK town centres

Dobson

2017

Citizenship Studies

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Britain's town centres have witnessed economic, social and physical upheaval over more than half a century, linked to sweeping changes in retailing and consumption. Yet they are also places where activists are seeking to fashion alternative futures and test social and economic models that challenge neoliberal norms. Reflecting on recent developments in the UK, this paper explores the potential of citizen-led economic activism in British town and city centres. Focusing on three case studies of urban activism, it contrasts policies and practices that frame the users of urban space as consumers with the marginal acts that seek to assert wider rights to the city. The article shows how ideas of 'resilience' have become a stake of struggle in debates over the future of urban centres and urban citizenship, deployed both to defend neoliberal economic configurations and to signal radical transitions towards more participatory and economically autonomous forms of society.

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“…They focus on how the institutional environment, of the place receiving the mobile knowledge, determines whether adoption occurs and what types of adaptation this might involve. Studies have shown that combinations of the socio-cultural legitimacy of particular practices (Boxenbaum and Battilana 2005), and the way institutions determine the availability of the skills and supporting infrastructure needed for adoption (Eick 2012), as well as conflicts or synergies with already existing knowledges, practices and regulations (Peck and Theodore 2010), all influence the impacts of knowledge mobilities.…”

Section: Importation Adaptation and The Situating Of Mobile Knowledgesmentioning

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Transnational building practices: knowledge mobility and the inescapable market

Faulconbridge

Grubbauer

2015

Global Networks

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Architecture and urban planning have always been subject to, and affected by, processes of transnational cultural exchange and professional networking. Yet, the modes and geographies of knowledge mobility in urban development have matured in the last two decades, with various forces resulting in forms of transnational learning that are faster, more frequent and have more impact. The articles in this special issue provide an important contribution to understanding this maturation, and highlight the particular ways in which knowledge and practice relating to building design move from place to place. In this introductory article, we develop an analysis of how transnational building practices come to be. We highlight the way that transnational building practices can both deepen our knowledge of the constitution of knowledge mobility, and exemplify the profound tensions that result from the clash between the structuring logic of international markets and the need to adapt global ideas to local contexts. Thus, in addition to de‐naturalizing mobility and teasing out how movement is manufactured, we draw attention to the way that the inescapable relationships between buildings and markets determine the trajectories and effects of transnational knowledge networks. This opening up of the political economy of mobility, we believe, is one of the most pertinent issues in relation to considerations of mobility more broadly.

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The co-production of purified space: hybrid policing in German Business Improvement Districts

Cited by 35 publications

References 41 publications

Local variants of mobile sustainable building assessment models: the marketization and constrained mutation of BREEAM ES

Local variants of mobile sustainable building assessment models: the marketization and constrained mutation of BREEAM ES

From ‘me towns’ to ‘we towns’: activist citizenship in UK town centres

Transnational building practices: knowledge mobility and the inescapable market

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