The significance of creative industry policy narratives for Zurich's transformation toward a post-industrial city

Dörry, Sabine; Rosol, Marit; Thissen, Fee Natalie

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2016.05.022

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“…The accelerated pace of land redevelopment that accompanied the resulting property boom had major impacts on the urban landscape. Important symptoms of this trend were rapid upward shifts in rates of home ownership, major expansion of business premises in CBDs, and the flowering of urban mega-projects, many of them in old industrial quarters such as the Zürich West development (Dörry et al, 2016), the Docks of St Ouen in the suburbs of Paris (Guironnet et al, 2016), and the Bicocca Technocity in Milan (Kaika, 2016). These latter projects illustrate another important feature of third-wave urbanization, namely, the assertive recycling and upgrading of derelict Fordist industrial sites in pursuit of property-led urban regeneration.…”

Section: Real-estate Markets and Financementioning

confidence: 99%

Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

Scott

2018

Journal of Urban Technology

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I seek to synthesize several different approaches to issues of urban land redevelopment and the built environment. The essay focuses on developments in the third and current historical wave of capitalist development. I describe the economic logic of land-use change with reference to both commercial and residential property. This logic has become intimately intertwined with global finance and this state of affairs has introduced new elements of fluidity and risk into the built environment. Issues of urban policy and the role of municipal authorities in shaping urban land markets are then considered. I describe how local government agencies increasingly pursue development projects in complex partnerships with representatives of the real-estate industry. In the second half of the paper, the overall argument is recast by reference to three important trends in regard to landredevelopment and the built environment in third-wave cities, namely, the economic and architectural renaissance of central business districts, the widespread gentrification of inner-city neighborhoods, and the emergence of a new post-suburban phase of peripheral urban expansion. KEYWORDS Built environment; financialization; land-use change; third-wave cities; urban redevelopment Urban Land and Property in Question This paper takes the form of an extended essay in which I seek to synthesize several different approaches to questions of land redevelopment and the built environment in contemporary cities. My objective is to bring these approaches into juxtaposition with one another so as to shed fresh light on the ways in which they operate, their relations to the functional structure of the city, and how they are currently reshaping patterns of urban development. A complex scientific and political question about the valuation, appropriation, and use of urban land and property emerges endemically within cities in capitalist society (Roweis and Scott, 1978). The substance of this question can be discerned within the phenomenon of the urban land nexus conceived as a mass of functionally interdependent assets such as factories, offices, houses, shopping facilities, public buildings, infrastructures, and so on, arranged in conjoint spatial patterns around a common center of gravity (Scott, 1980; Scott and Storper, 2015). Complex processes of redevelopment, piloted by intermediaries

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Section: Real-estate Markets and Financementioning

confidence: 99%

Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

Scott

2018

Journal of Urban Technology

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“…However, any modification or extension entails increased demands on the base and comparable data available. Therefore, most studies using the original 3T model or modified version of Florida are geared to assessing creativity at the level of one state, region or city (Tinagli et al, 2007;Rumpel et al, 2010;Tinagli et al, 2012;Fahmi et al, 2016;Dörry et al, 2016). The comparison of creative potential and human capital in the EU-27 was attempted by Bobirca & Draghici (2011), while their modification was called the European Creativity Trend Index.…”

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“…A number of newer works are not primarily theoretically and methodological, but they focus on case studies from selected cities and regions on creativity, smart and innovative practices in urban politics and planning, often geographic, spatial context (Rumpel et al, 2010;Angelidou, 2014;Tafel-Viia et al, 2015;Dörry, 2016). Spatial and planning studies from rapidly growing Asian cities and metropolitan areas are also topical (Tang, 2016;Zhong, 2016;Fahmi et al, 2016 and many others).…”

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The Creativity Index Growth Rate in the Czech Republic: A Spatial Approach

Chaloupková¹,

Kunc²,

Dvořák³

2018

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The presented paper analyses the development of conditions for the development of a creative economy in the regions of the Czech Republic. Through the calculations of a number of sub-indicators in the area of talent, technology and tolerance (Florida´s 3T model), the development of the Creativity Index in 2011-2015 has been mapped in individual regions. In the next phase the development of the average growth rate of the Creativity Index was evaluated and graphically illustrated. At the end of the research, a situational and trending matrix of creativity was compiled, dividing the regions into four quadrants (leaders, up and coming, laggards, and losing ground). The results showed the dominant position of the capital city of Prague, which reached the highest score throughout the whole period and with great precedence surpassed all other regions. Only the South Moravian Region surpassed Prague in a specific way, in the value of the R & D indicator. In this region lies the second largest city of the Czech Republic in Brno, which has a very strong position in the field of research, development and innovation. The situational matrix captured the situation in which the leader's quadrant was only Prague, while the other regions were growing in the region quadrant. On the contrary, the trend matrix has suggested that Prague is losing its leading position as it is overtaken by the South Moravian region.

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“…While a handful of IFCs exert global dominance, they also have developed differently according to local complementary specialties, instating a global production network of finance. For instance, Dörry (2016) noted that in the mutual fund industry, Dublin and Luxembourg have come to specialise in "depository banking, valuation, documentation and reporting" while London has specialised in investment management services, investment advisory and financial engineering. In this instance, complementarity of dislocated tasks and functions is enabled by cross-border collaboration via technological means.…”

Section: Agglomeration Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Placing the Production of Investment Returns: An Economic Geography of Asset Management in Public Pension Plans

Urban

2019

Economic Geography

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The significance of creative industry policy narratives for Zurich's transformation toward a post-industrial city

Cited by 22 publications

References 30 publications

Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

The Creativity Index Growth Rate in the Czech Republic: A Spatial Approach

Placing the Production of Investment Returns: An Economic Geography of Asset Management in Public Pension Plans

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