The <scp>D</scp>ortmund Case — On the Enactment of an Urban Economic Imaginary

Jonas, Michael

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12092

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“…In my approach to this topic, I have applied a practice theory based research perspective (Bourdieu 1968;Reckwitz 2002) or so-called praxeological perspective (Jonas 2014).…”

Section: Central Aspects Of a Praxeological Research Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

On the Enactment of Roundabout Art: A Praxeological Analysis

Jonas

2019

City & Community

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The growth in the use of roundabouts to regulate traffic in many European countries has been accompanied for some years now by the planned use of their central islands. With the enactment of roundabout art, a new art form has established itself in the public space. Cities and regions that make use of such deployments generally do so for urban branding and community identity building purposes. Taking a praxeological perspective, this article uses a case study from Austria to demonstrate that the success and failure of such urban branding and community identity building practices does not depend solely on the ideas of the actors involved in the planning and implementation of roundabout art. Instead, it requires a broad perspective in which the enactment of roundabout art is understood as a phenomenon that is the result of the realization of the roundabout art itself as well as of the self‐development of these installations and the context‐dependent reception practices of their target audiences. In doing so, the article works out and suggests some central aspects of urban branding as well as roundabout art planning, implementation, and reception practices that could be used by urban planners, politicians, and other actors engaged in such artwork projects.

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“…In my approach to this topic, I have applied a practice theory based research perspective (Bourdieu 1968;Reckwitz 2002) or so-called praxeological perspective (Jonas 2014).…”

Section: Central Aspects Of a Praxeological Research Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

On the Enactment of Roundabout Art: A Praxeological Analysis

Jonas

2019

City & Community

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“…On the one hand, international competition for residents and investment since the late 1970s caused a deep shift in urban policy from the orchestration of growth and its social effects towards attempts to position cities as places having an inherently good business climate (Harvey, 1989;MacLeod, 2011). Effects range from the qualitative design and marketing of positive spatial imaginaries (Baker and Ruming, 2015;Jonas, 2014) to quantitative number crunches and calculative standardizations of local markets (Bitterer and Heeg, 2015). On the other hand, urban crises fundamentally reshaped the framework for local policies in two waves.…”

Section: The Rise Of Fast Urban Policies and The Demand For Consultantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They are part of the global "social infrastructure" (Peck and Theodore, 2015:xv) that popularize and advertise certain policies. Examples include local officials who import harm reduction drug policies (McCann and Temenos, 2015), management consultants who regularly recommend cluster strategies (Jonas, 2014;Vogelpohl, 2016) and think tanks that spread neoliberal thinking (Mitchell, 2009;. The experts' role in all these cases is to identify and label existing problems, to develop solutions, to provide access to information about existing solutions and to customize this information to local conditions.…”

Section: The Rise Of Fast Urban Policies and The Demand For Consultantsmentioning

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Consulting completed: temporal aspects of expertise in urban development during times of fast policies

Vogelpohl

2017

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. Consultants, especially management consultants with their expertise in markets and entrepreneurial thinking, have gained a new role in urban policy. Urban politicians, facing ever-increasing international competition as well as diverse urban crises, search for immediate solutions, at times drawing on professional advice. This paper introduces the role of management consultants in urban policy in the context of fast policies. These new policies are often both developed over short periods of time and built upon predesigned concepts. Taking six German cities as examples, I frame the impact both of the duration of consultancy projects and of the moment when the consultants leave as temporal aspects of expertise that significantly influence how the external knowledge eventually shapes local political practices. I show that short-term consulting first causes a stimulus for change but then primarily results in an ambivalent amalgamation of professionalization and selectivity as permanently fast modes of everyday policymaking.

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“…In spite of that, the Dortmund-project has been the subject of much documentation and many studies (including McKinsey, 2002;Ziesemer, 2004;van den Berg, 2004;Küpper, 2005;Röllinghoff, 2008;Kiese, 2012;Jonas, 2014) and still today is considered to be an exemplary pioneering project in the field of strategic regional policy that has gained respect both nationally and internationally.…”

Section: The Dortmund-projectmentioning

confidence: 99%