Urban Policy and the Post‐Keynesian State in the United Kingdom and the United States

Gaffikin, Frank; Warf, Barney

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.1993.tb00213.x

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“…The ability of the nation-state to control hypermobile multinational interests has weakened (Fainstein, 1990;Gaffikin and Warf, 1993) and there has been a marked shift from the Keynesian welfare state of the postwar 'long boom' (Harvey, 1989). In its place a more entrepreneurial state has emerged (Eisinger, 1988).…”

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Entrepreneurial Approaches to Urban Decline: The Honeysuckle Redevelopment in Inner Newcastle, New South Wales

1996

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Global changes in production and consumption, and the resulting competition between places for investment flows, have encouraged the emergence of the 'entrepreneurial state'. This paper focuses on the Honeysuckle redevelopment in Newcastle, New South Wales. This case study of active entrepreneurialism, aimed at promoting Newcastle's interurban competitiveness through material and symbolic reconstructions, reveals the changes wrought by an entrepreneurial approach to the style and content of city government and politics. The Honeysuckle Development Corporation operates at the juncture between federal, state, and local government engagement with capital in the attempt to address the local impacts of economic restructuring. It provides an important case study of the shifting parameters of the relationship between various tiers of the state, and between these tiers and the interests of capital in contemporary urban redevelopment. It also addresses the problematic questions of sustainability, accountability, and equity in urban entrepreneurialism, while providing a long-overdue empirical study of Newcastle.

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Section: The Emergence Of the Entrepreneurial Citymentioning

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Entrepreneurial Approaches to Urban Decline: The Honeysuckle Redevelopment in Inner Newcastle, New South Wales

1996

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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).…”

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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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“…During this post-war boom (to regulation theorists, the Fordist regime of accumulation), mass production was accompanied by rising consumption norms from consumers whose wages and social conditions were regulated by Keynesian economic policies (see Gaffikin and Warf, 1993). In Australia, wage levels were collectively bargained, which contributed to overall increasing real income levels and thus stimulated further growth in consumer demand.…”

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“…In retrospect, these changes are not difficult to identify: the collapse of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971 and the subsequent shift to floating exchange rates; growing international indebtedness; the oil crises of 1974 and 1979 and the subsequent recession in industrialised countries; stagflation and rising interest rates; and increasing consumer demand for differentiated and specialised products (Gaffikin and Warf, 1993). The emerging structural crisis was one in which the inability of Keynesian policies to contain inflation, unemployment, rising interest rates and growing socio-economic inequalities, became increasingly apparent.…”

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“…Neoliberal policy approaches hold that revenues collected by the state for the provision of public goods and services necessarily detract from private investment, saving and consumption, and thus interfere with the mechanics of the free market (Gaffikin and Warf, 1993). The response by neoliberal governments has been to impose flatter (less distorting) taxes and charges on private industry, and to reduce levels of personal income tax.…”

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Urban Policy and the Post‐Keynesian State in the United Kingdom and the United States

Cited by 41 publications

References 40 publications

Entrepreneurial Approaches to Urban Decline: The Honeysuckle Redevelopment in Inner Newcastle, New South Wales

Entrepreneurial Approaches to Urban Decline: The Honeysuckle Redevelopment in Inner Newcastle, New South Wales

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

From state paternalism to neoliberalism in Australian rural policy: Perspectives from the Western Australian wheatbelt

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