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Urban policy mobilities

Created 09 Feb 2024 | 25 articles

This virtual collection introduces and discusses urban policy mobilities contributions published in Urban Geography. Emerging in the very early 2000s, this inter-disciplinary field challenged work on policy transfer. Instead, it drew upon existing contributions from architecture, history and planning, to argue from a processual, relational and social-constructionist approach to theorizing the making of policies mobiles, what happens when they are in motion and under what conditions they stop moving.

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Kevin Ward(University of Manchester, UK)

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Urban policy mobilities in Urban Geography: in retrospect and in prospect
Kevin Ward

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 45, Number: 4 (20 Apr 2024)

Published online: 15 Mar 2024
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Beyond failure: the generative effects of unsuccessful proposals for Supervised Drug Consumption Sites (SCS) in Melbourne, Australia
Tom Baker & Eugene McCann

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 41, Number: 9 (20 Oct 2020) The Urban Politics of Policy Failure

Published online: 23 Jul 2018
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The relational co-production of “success” and “failure,” or the politics of anxiety of exporting urban “models” elsewhere
Rachel Bok

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 41, Number: 9 (20 Oct 2020) The Urban Politics of Policy Failure

Published online: 05 Aug 2020
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Policy mobilities as informal processes: evidence from “creative city” policy-making in Gdańsk and Stockholm
Thomas Borén & Craig Young

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 42, Number: 4 (21 Apr 2021)

Published online: 11 Mar 2020
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Urban Pulse—A Geography of Serial Seduction: Urban Policy Transfer from Kuala Lumpur to Hyderabad
Tim Bunnell & Diganta Das

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 31, Number: 3 (01 Apr 2010) 2009 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture

Published online: 16 May 2013
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Is it sound policy or fast policy? Practitioners’ perspectives on the role of place branding in local economic development
Evan Cleave, Godwin Arku, Richard Sadler & Jason Gilliland

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 38, Number: 8 (14 Sep 2017)

Published online: 07 Jun 2016
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Relational Comparisons: The Assembling of Cleveland's Waterfront Plan
Ian R. Cook & Kevin Ward

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 33, Number: 6 (01 Aug 2012) Comparative Urbanism

Published online: 16 May 2013
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Getting Globalized: Urban Policy and Industrial Displacement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Winifred Curran & Susan Hanson

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 26, Number: 6 (01 Sep 2005)

Published online: 16 May 2013
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Going bust two ways? Epistemic communities and the study of urban policy failure
Mark Davidson

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 41, Number: 9 (20 Oct 2020) The Urban Politics of Policy Failure

Published online: 29 May 2019
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Mechanisms of mutation: policy mobilities and the Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone
Kevin Fox Gotham

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 35, Number: 8 (17 Nov 2014)

Published online: 03 Nov 2014
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Cities on the global real estate marketplace: urban development policy and the circulation of financial standards in two French localities
Antoine Guironnet

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 40, Number: 10 (26 Nov 2019)

Published online: 17 Jun 2019
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State Transformation, Policy Learning, and Exclusive Displacement in the Process of Urban Redevelopment in Taiwan
Jinn-yuh Hsu & Yen-hsing Hsu

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 34, Number: 5 (01 Aug 2013)

Published online: 21 Jun 2013
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Urban policy mobilities, argumentation and the case of the model city
Sean M. Kennedy

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 37, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2016)

Published online: 01 Jul 2015
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“Contested policy mobility”: the creative transformation and temporary use of brownfields in Redtory, Guangzhou
Xuan Liu

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 38, Number: 6 (03 Jul 2017)

Published online: 01 Sep 2016
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Policy Boosterism, Policy Mobilities, and the Extrospective City
Eugene McCann

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 34, Number: 1 (01 Feb 2013)

Published online: 11 Apr 2013
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The 2012 Olympic Learning Legacy Agenda – the intentionalities of mobility for a new London model
Susan Moore, Mike Raco & Ben Clifford

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 39, Number: 2 (07 Feb 2018)

Published online: 10 Mar 2017
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Playing with time in Moore Street, Dublin: Urban redevelopment, temporal politics and the governance of space-time
Niamh Moore-Cherry & Christine Bonnin

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 41, Number: 9 (20 Oct 2020) The Urban Politics of Policy Failure

Published online: 24 Jan 2018
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The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building
Sarah Moser, Laurence Côté-Roy & Prosper Issahaku Korah

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 43, Number: 8 (14 Sep 2022)

Published online: 19 Apr 2021
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Urban policy (im)mobilities and refractory policy lessons: experimenting with the sustainability fix
Aida Nciri & Anthony Levenda

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 41, Number: 9 (20 Oct 2020) The Urban Politics of Policy Failure

Published online: 14 Feb 2019
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Relational Cities: Doha, Panama City, and Dubai as 21st Century EntrepÔts
Thomas J. Sigler

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 34, Number: 5 (01 Aug 2013)

Published online: 18 Jun 2013
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Zero Tolerance in Latin America: Punitive Paradox in Urban Policy Mobilities
Kate Swanson

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 34, Number: 7 (01 Nov 2013)

Published online: 08 Jun 2013
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The urban politics of policy failure
Cristina Temenos & John Lauermann

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 41, Number: 9 (20 Oct 2020) The Urban Politics of Policy Failure

Published online: 30 Sep 2020
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Policing the future, disrupting urban policy today. Predictive policing, smart city, and urban policy in Memphis (TN)
Simone Tulumello & Fabio Iapaolo

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 43, Number: 3 (16 Mar 2022)

Published online: 14 Feb 2021
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Policy-failing: a repealed right to shelter
Katie J. Wells

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 41, Number: 9 (20 Oct 2020) The Urban Politics of Policy Failure

Published online: 03 Apr 2019
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Moving policy: global and local characters circulating bus rapid transit through South African cities
Astrid Wood

Originally published in Urban Geography, Volume: 35, Number: 8 (17 Nov 2014)

Published online: 24 Oct 2014
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